Hello,I'm Valentine

I'm an interaction designer. I dissect complex problems, study users in their context and craft thoughtful experiences.

After 2 years in Shanghai, I'm now in Oslo where I build cool things for the workplace of the future at Cisco Norway.

Had a notoriously messy desk at: BYTON 🇨🇳, Creative Capital 🇨🇳, Sina Retail & Image 🇨🇳, and Naoned 🇫🇷.

Scroll down to see my projects

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An alternative medium of communication for translocal Chinese families.
Designed as an answer to Wechat's monopoly over family communication. Optimized to sustain relationships and relieve homesickness.

5 MIN READ
2020

Aodi

A social gaming platform that gathers sighted and visually impaired players around audio interactive fictions.

6 MIN READ
2018

Emobot - Deustche Telekom

An AI-powered customer-care bot that reacts to human emotions through subtle animations to create a climate of trust.

5 MIN READ
2018

Irregular

A tool to encourage people suffering from depression to overcome daily challenges and practice self-care. A tangible way to help keep track of their progress and celebrate each step in the right direction.

6 MIN READ
2019

Oceanographic Museum of Monaco

UX audit, overhaul of the information architecture, simplification of user paths.

2 MIN READ
2017

Fast and Tearious

A fun game where you're using your balance to fly a real magic carpet. Built using Processing, Makey Makey, a bit of craziness and a lot of duct tape.

3 MIN READ
2017

Au Vieux Campeur-interactive shop

Project in collaboration with architecture students. We redesigned a sports shop and did video mapping to enhance the customer experience.

5 MIN READ
2017

Twogether

An app helping divorced parents organize their family life by communicating in an innovative way, in order to prevent conflicts and misunderstandings.

2 MIN READ
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Panorama

A career guidance service focused around the user's personnality, helping them discover or search for their dream job in a playful and stress-free experience without being restrained.

2 MIN READ
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* What am I up to ?

In 2021 I moved to Norway and joined Cisco, where I work on the UX of their videoconferencing devices. In 2020, I've worked on the in-car welcome scenario and designed an interactive window concept for BYTON, Tesla's Chinese competitor. Before that I was designing retail experiences at Creative Capital, a renowned branding agency in Shanghai. I've also created and developed their entire website.
Also, 我正在学习中文。 现在我可以理解和说话了，我也可以读写一点。 我还可以开个玩笑！

Want to have a chat ? I'm always happy to discuss with cool people, send me an email~

I recently wrote a few articles :
· An essay on burn out syndrome and the cultural value of work, a topic I'm deeply passionate about
· An article I wrote with my friend Maëva Hémon about our experience at the Deutsche Telekom AI hackathon
· Another article I wrote about my 4 months as a UX design intern at Naoned, an archival software company
· A report on a user testing session I had the opportunity to carry out during this internship