About me

I'm Julien Dotte, a 28-year-old digital product designer, with a mission to connect the needs of businesses with those of users. Often, companies ask to designer to design what they would like but rarely what they truly need. My role is to help companies to understand that desigining a digital product is more complex and how to integrate user-centred design to make their product usable and delightful.

WHAT I DO

User research

UI Design

Ergonomia

Workshops

Strategy

Coaching

Where I worked

Opteamis, Vendor Management System for IT services

Odigo, omnichannel relationship management platform

Epicery, grocery delivery platform

Daily life

In my daily life, I like to switch on my computer to create things. When it's not about interfaces, it's about logos, stories or creative projects such as creating a role-playing game.

Some logos realized for personal projects.

Otherwise, I play video games online with friends. I love fantasy art: painting, literature and games mainly. I certainly developed this fascination for this type of art when I was a child, playing with LEGOs representing castles, knights, magicians and orcs...

I had trouble finding a photo of the collection of logos I played with as a child. But I did find one that looks very similar.

Anonymous photographer. Photo from the article "Orc's Skinking Castle" by Anonymous author for LEGO IDEAS, 20 June 2024. http://ideas.lego.com/projects/8a1f5fc8-c0e2-4ce9-9c60-6944dfaa46f8.

How I became designer

One day, I happened to be watching an interview on the ‘O'gaming’ streaming channel. In it, two people from Ogaming were asking questions of a Community Manager from Riot Games, the studio behind the world-famous video game League of Legends. As he answered the questions, I found myself thinking: ‘This job sounds great! Why shouldn't I? I was 17 at the time. Reading articles on the Internet and watching videos on Youtube convinced me that this was what I wanted to do. In the end, I enrolled at IESA Multimedia, a school that trains students in project management, strategy, graphic design and development.

Chips and Noi from the former Twitch channel Ogaming

Fabien Cullié and Charles Lapassat, from Ogaming twitch channel, were in charge of of interviewing a Community Manager.

Anonymous photographer. Photo taken from the article "L'emblématique duo Chips & Noi quitte O'Gaming" by Hugo Bernabeu for e.sport.fr, 30 October 2020. https://e.sport.fr/news/lemblematique-duo-chips-noi-quitte-ogaming-686657.shtm.

When I started out, I specialised in graphic design. But when I quickly discovered the existence of UX Design, it was like a revelation. I no longer wanted to be a community manager, but a UX Designer. I wanted to combine my creative skills with my analytical abilities in my future work. It was through hard work that, in my third year, I started a work-study placement as a UX designer at Odigo. It was my first step in my career as a digital product designer.

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My hobbies

Electronic music

Fantastic role-playing game

Online games

Art

History

Philosophy

Geography

My 3 favourite musics

Porter Robinson & Madeon - Shelter

U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday

DJ Snake ft. Bipolar Sunshine - Middle

My 3 favourite paintings

"The Enigma" from Gustave Doré

"Die Toteninsel" from Arnold Böcklin

"The Garden of Earthly Delights" from Jérôme Bosch

My 3 favourite books

"The Call of Cthulhu" from H.P Lovecraft

"Le Père Goriot" from Honoré de Balzac

"House of Leaves" from Mark Z. Danielewski

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