Louis-Jean
Teitelbaum

+33 6 45 50 52 05
ljt@meidosem.com

  1. beta.gouv.fr2021-present

    Product discovery and prototyping

    Coached public agents on researching and prototyping concepts around sustainable construction, participative democracy and flood risk management.
  2. Gobelins2020-2022

    Co-head of graduate program in digital design

    Wrote the syllabus and recruited the teachers for a co-op class of developers and designers.
    Coached students with an emphasis on self-directed learning, taught design methods, organized game jams.
  3. Samsung2020-2021

    Product discovery and creative coding

    Prototyped a custom UI for home tablets that responds to voice, music and movement
    (contract work with Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec Design).
  4. Fjord Paris2015–2019

    Selling, shaping, leading and delivering design projects

    • Design director(corporate transformation with clients in IT, banking, construction)

      • Recruited and mentored designers. Put in place a process for continuous learning in the studio.
      • Wrote the studio’s methodology around designing for employee experience. Planned, sold and led multiple engagements around employee experience, growing one account from zero to over €1M in a year.
    • Service design lead(product discovery and delivery with clients in retail, energy, employment)

      • Built and tested live prototypes for street terminals, checkout lines, digital receipts and more.
      • Planned and conducted field research across industries and geographies (Europe, North America).
      • Planned and facilitated ideation and alignment workshops.
      • Grew the technology team in the Paris studio from one person to seven people.
    • Creative technologist(product delivery)

      • Designed the interfaces and processes of retail tools for a major French customer bank.
      • Architected and developed a web app for back office traders, for another major banking client.
      • Designed and developed (with Rails) an internal platform for large scale ideation and polling.
  5. Microcultures2010-2012

    Co-founder of a crowdfunding business

    • Designed and developped a music crowdfunding and commerce site.
    • Art-directed each project page with custom designs and rich animations.
  6. Freelancer2008–present

    Various projects as designer, developer, lead and facilitator

    • Designed and developed a photo and project management Ruby on Rails app (for a luxury brand).
    • Developped tie-in sites for museum exhibitions in Paris (with RMN Grand-Palais).
    • Developped and pushlished puzzle game app for the Paris cinema museum (the Forum des Images)
    • Coached intrapreneur teams in the automobile and energy sectors.
  7. Teacher2010–present

    Lectures on interactive design, user research, prototyping and development

    Taught classes and led workshops at ENSCI Les Ateliers, Gobelins, EFAP, Laptop, Telecom ParisTech and École des Mines de Paris.
  8. Education

    Telecom ParisTech 2008-2013

    Research engineer and PhD student
    PhD work on the history of computer interfaces.

    ENS de Lyon + EHESS2002-2008

    B.A. and M.A. in Philosophy
    M.A. in History and sociology of science and technology

  9. Skills

    Fluent in French and English.

    Front-end web

    Modern HTML, CSS, JavaScript and TypeScript.
    Familiar with React, Vue and Svelte.

    Back-end web

    Web app construction with Node.js, Ruby on Rails and PHP.
    Linux server administration.

    Native apps

    Mac and iOS development in Swift.

    Design tools

    Figma, Sketch, Illustrator, Photoshop, Final Cut Pro.