Mathieu Fortune
With 14 years of experience, I design accessible, high-impact digital products across Insurtech, Climate Tech, EdTech, and E-commerce, spanning B2C, B2B, and B2B2C across web and native mobile.
My background goes beyond design. I've written production code as a front-end developer, driven growth as a digital marketer, crafted brand identities as a graphic designer, and built a company from zero as a co-founder. That range gives me an unusually complete picture of how products get made and what it actually takes to ship something that works for users and for the business.
I bring that full-stack perspective to every team I join, working fluidly across disciplines rather than handing off at the edges of a job description. I'm drawn to mission-driven companies using design and technology to create real-world impact. If that's what you're building, I'd love to be part of it.
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With two sprints and no engineering bandwidth, I prototyped the northstar vision for Jewelers Mutual's mobile app directly in code with Claude. The interactive prototype shaped product direction conversations with senior executives.
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How I adapted a Design Sprint at Carbon Direct to scope a new decarbonization product in one week, with a brand-new team in a domain none of us knew yet. The evidence we gathered helped leadership make a confident no-go call.
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How I redesigned Mentor Collective's basic dashboard into a self-serve platform for higher-ed administrators, modernizing a live system from research to launch. Monthly active users grew 116% year over year.
Read more"An accomplished designer with a keen eye for detail and a broad range of experience, Mathieu can effectively engage at any level of the design process. He would undoubtedly be an asset to any team that has the opportunity to work with him."
"Mathieu is a designer who not just designs for what is needed now, but strives to anticipate the next set of needs. His research and design will not just meet your immediate needs but plants the seeds for future directions."
"Mathieu is hands down, one of the best designers I've had the pleasure to work with, and if you're lucky enough to add him to your team, I'm sure you'll feel the same way."
"What sets Mathieu apart is his ability to be a creative thought partner when it comes to bridging the gap between design and engineering, demonstrating a commitment to collaboration and teamwork."
"Mathieu is very easy to work with, he knows how to handle situations and answers all the challenges on the spot. He follows through and closes actions. He is very knowledgeable and skilled at what he does and guides his customers towards the current trends in the industry."
"Mathieu's attention to detail and his knack for understanding what users need are top-notch. Despite being new to the climate and sustainability field, he quickly got up to speed and was engaging in detailed conversations with our climate scientists within weeks!"
A practical guide for Product Managers and Product Designers on writing good, reusable AI "skills," the instruction sets that make an agent do the same job well, every time. Built on Matt Pocock's four-part framework, reframed through a product lens, with one complete skill you can lift and use this week.
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How I designed a human-in-the-loop AI workflow for Scope 3 spend-based emissions at Carbon Direct. LLMs categorized the spend data, analysts corrected the results, and every correction trained the model. Ingestion got 15% faster and manual corrections dropped 20%.
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In this piece, I share my UX design process, a refined approach shaped by extensive experience and collaboration. It's a process of transforming user needs into effective design solutions, adaptable to the unique demands of each project.
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How I built and championed Mentor Collective's first design system, an accessible, React-friendly foundation that gave product and engineering a shared language and let the team ship consistent B2C and B2B work as it scaled.
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As a co-founder of MoGraph Mentor, an ed-tech startup providing group mentoring and curriculum for motion designers, I led a comprehensive website and brand overhaul. This case study details my journey in reimagining our online presence from the ground up. I'll discuss the initial research phase, my design process, and how I balanced my roles as both a designer and a founder. You'll gain insights into how I tackled the unique challenges of elevating an educational platform's digital footprint.
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This case study will provide an in-depth look at the UX design process for creating a website design for Jet Ski Inc, a fictional jet ski rental company based in Miami, FL.
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Being a practitioner of User Experience Design in a company isn't always an easy task. People, Time, Budget, are all sorts of factors we need to take into account to deliver a good user experience for the product...
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It's a reasonably broad term. It incorporates all aspects of a person's experience with something. It could be an interactive system, an application, a website, a physical product that you can hold in your hand, the experience you have with a car, ...
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An interesting fact about that we now have a name for this discipline is that back then, when I was in school, it was just named "Design".
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Promeo is a well-known real estate developer in the South of France. They needed to refresh its website to be aligned with their new brand identity.
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1001pharmacies.com is an online marketplace in the health and well-being activity. Its purpose is to connect pharmacists directly with their customers through an access to their products online. Each pharmacy can manage its own drugstore catalog and its stock.
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In this article, I want to dive into what is usability ? Making sure that a product is easy to use for everyone, whatever the physical and mental context they are in (physically impared, on the move, novice, ...).
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Card sorting is a method for designing user-centric information architecture. In this article, I will attempt to describe its use and its benefits when designing a site as well as showing a concrete example.
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In October 2016, I was approached by Booking.com's recruiter about a position of UX/Product Designer. One of my test during the hiring process was to design a simple A/B test that can be setup on the desktop version of the website.
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This use case is a following of my previous article about "what's a persona" that I suggest you to read if you haven't do already.
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1001pharmacies.com is an online marketplace in the health and well-being activity. Its purpose is to connect pharmacists directly with their customers through an access to their products online. Each pharmacy can manage its own drugstore catalog and its stock.
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Connect Together is a social network connecting Charities-Non Profit Organisations and Non Governmental Organisations to potential donors and create a community for people who care about the same causes.
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UX FLUPA's MeetUp are an occasion for UX designer and other to met and discuss about UX related topics around a good beer and nice atmosphere.
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