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Christophe Van Engelen

UX & Service Designer | Customer Journeys → MVP

€700/day
Brussels, BE
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Christophe

Welcome :-)

I help companies and startups design and improve digital journeys (SaaS, apps, platforms) to drive adoption, conversion, and satisfaction, all while maintaining a focus on business priorities and delivery constraints.

I combine UX Design and Service Design: I clarify the problem, align stakeholders, and turn insights into testable, shippable solutions your product and tech teams can implement.

How can I help

  • Discovery & framing: user/expert interviews, insight synthesis, prioritization
  • Stakeholder alignment: workshops (C-level & cross-functional), scope and trade-offs
  • End-to-end journeys: journey mapping, service blueprints, friction removal
  • UX/UI audits: actionable diagnosis + prioritized recommendations
  • Prototyping & validation: rapid Figma prototypes, usability testing, iteration
  • MVP & backlog support: MVP definition, user stories, success criteria

Typical deliverables

Personas • Journey maps • Service blueprints • UX/UI audit • Wireframes • Figma prototypes • Test results • Prioritized recommendations • MVP framing / roadmap inputs

Engagements I do most often

  • Corporate: journey transformation, tool/platform consolidation, UX governance, complex flows (onboarding, self-service, admin/billing)
  • Startups: short sprints, UX/UI redesign, activation & conversion, landing pages, rapid prototyping and market validation

Tools

Figma • Miro/FigJam/Mural • Jira/Confluence • Notion
Analytics: Matomo, Google Analytics, Tableau, Power BI
AI-assisted workflow: Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Vercel v0, Antigravity
  • English

    Fluent

  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • Dutch

    Conversational

Can work on-site
Brussels (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Speos
    Service Design
    August 2024 - Today (1 year and 10 months)
    Goal: Unify tools into one coherent SaaS platform.
    • Drove discovery through SME and customer interviews, surfacing needs, constraints, and adoption barriers across key customer journeys.
    • Synthesized insights into personas, end-to-end customer journeys, and service blueprints, clarifying consistency requirements across touchpoints.
    • Orchestrated cross-functional workshops (Miro/Mural/FigJam) to align stakeholders on objectives, value proposition, and scope trade-offs.
    • Validated direction through Figma prototyping and iterative reviews with stakeholders/users, de-risking delivery decisions early.
    • Informed prioritization with usage signals (Lead Onion, Matomo) and strengthened consistency via a modular design system approach.
  • Homerun (Choeke/Bizzbro)
    Partner
    October 2022 - Today (3 years and 8 months)
    Goal: Rebuild UX/UI to boost activation and conversion.
    • Rebuilt the UX/UI of an existing product (CMS + mobile app) in Figma, driving a +50% usability score improvement.
    • Launched activation/conversion landing pages for two startups, sharpening messaging, journey clarity, and conversion paths.
    • Ran lean iterations to remove friction across onboarding and key customer journeys; converted learnings into a sharper backlog and faster releases.
    • Accelerated delivery cadence and reduced prototyping time by 40% through streamlined practices and clearer handover assets.
  • HMS Networks
    Service Designer & UX Lead
    June 2021 - October 2022 (1 year and 4 months)
    Build a one-stop SaaS with self-onboarding MVPs.
    • Led discovery through stakeholder workshops and interviews (users + internal experts), mapping end-to-end customer journeys from device installation to monitoring and remote collaboration.
    • Distilled insights into personas, journey maps, and a prioritized opportunity backlog; defined MVP scopes per user type with product and tech.
    • Steered redesign and design system evolution in Figma, ensuring feasibility within the implementation context (Angular).
    • Enabled delivery with clear handover assets and decision material; set up KPI tracking and dashboards (Power BI) to guide iteration. Contributed to +30% adoption through validated improvements and stronger end-to-end journey consistency.

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Education

  • Bachelor of Arts
    SAE Institute Paris
    2001
    Bachelor of Arts - BA, Intermédia / multimédia

Certifications

  • UX Deliverables
    Notman Nielsen
    2018
  • UX & Analytics
    Norman Nielsen
    2018

Skill set

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