Ohayou 👋🏿, I’m Gaëtan Nkamegue, a Montreal-based Product Designer. I love funneling user and business needs into great digital experiences as well as helping organizations craft the(ir) future.
B.A. in industrial design.
2014-2018
I studied at the University of Montreal, an experience from which came a handful of fun projects in a myriad of fields: transportation, sports goods, graphic design, VR, etc. I gravitated towards interaction design by the later years of the program which led to me working on my favorite project to date (yes, to date)…
Pretty Good Network, or PiGeoN.
2017-2018
Revisiting identity management through trust networks. This project has been fueling my interest in the digital space and my motivation to continue pursuing a career in UX/UI where I would learn how to solve for real needs in complex and technical environments.
Joined Osedea, a digital agency.
Junior UI Designer
2018-2019
They opened the door for me to begin my career’s journey and for that I will be forever grateful 🙏🏿. I worked on a slew of fun projects, ranging from marketing sites, to mobile apps, and web apps. It’s the latter I grew enamored with.
After a year, I had come to measure the success of my output through our clients’ feedback more so than the actual end-users’. I had grown comfortable with executing on tasks, not so much with making sure I was building the right thing.
I was offered a position to work on the Sharegate line of products where I would help build the future of collaborative governance in the Azure cost management and Teams management spaces for IT Administrators.
Because I yearned for a deeper relationship with end-users, and because I wanted to hone my craft in Product design, the decision to jump on the opportunity was a no-brainer.
During my time there, I was as a contributing member of the design system team, building up and documenting assets to support our designers and developers in releasing value more quickly.
I’ve been accountable for the leading of many initiatives & epics from the research to the handoff (or handshake) phases in close collaboration with product owners, UX writers, developers, designers, marketers, and strategists.
Post-handoff, I’ve also dug down into data to assess the success of our efforts and course correct if need be. I’ve also been very implicated in the research & design communities to partake in the sharing of knowledge.
The opportunity to start a product from scratch is a luxury rarely afforded to designers working in SASS companies. Yet, it was presented to me when two starry-eyed cofounders sought help to build a navigation engine for the open metaverse. Who could resist?
I spent the first year tackling novel UX challenges while collaborating with the CEO and product team to design, prototype and deliver a platform showcasing the most novel experiences.
Albeit some resounding excitement from a core pocket of users, the path to monetization was not obvious, so we swiftly pivoted.
The next year was spent working on an even more ambitious product: a crowdfunding platform wherein anybody could generate a concept with AI and have the item manufactured—by us—provided they could find willing buyers.
Seeing as I was—and remained—the sole designer on the team, my work shifted continuously from pushing pixels to driving strategic alignment across stakeholders to ensure we were building the right thing.
Working across this range is what I love most.
Joined Lighthouse Meta, a startup.
Senior Product Designer
2022-2024
Lighthouse.world, Off/Script mobile app
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To Whom It May Concern,
I am writing to highly recommend Gaetan Nkamegue, who recently served as Senior Designer and Head of Design at Off/Script between February 2022 and September 2024. Gaetan is quite simply the single best designer I’ve had the chance to work with, and this recommendation letter aims at providing some context around that claim.
Over his time at Off/Script, Gaetan played a pivotal role in designing a consumer app that scaled to 600,000 users within 8 months, and cracked the top 100 of the App Store while keeping a 4.9 review rating. His understanding of viral mechanics, cohesive flow building, and translating strategic imperatives into a seamless product experience are one of the main reasons why Off/Script was able to achieve that growth in a mainly organic fashion. Gaetan is thorough, clever, data driven, fast, and incredibly passionate about what he does. He is a continuous learner with a clear growth mindset.
Moreover, Gaetan was a true team player with a positive attitude, always willing to collaborate and support his colleagues. His enthusiasm and dedication were evident in everything he did, and he consistently brought fresh, innovative ideas to the table. If we needed to rehire someone for the role of Head of Design, we would pick Gaetan without hesitation.
I am confident that Gaetan will be a valuable asset to any team, and I strongly recommend him.
Should you have any further questions, please feel free to contact me.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Brun - jonathan@lighthouse.world
Co-founder & CEO
Off/Script
My favorite design tool is writing ✍🏿.
I love asking why, and I expect people might do the same when looking at my work. I’ve thus built the habit of documenting my every decision through writing before submitting my work for feedback/review. This method so far has gotten me great mileage in my efforts to demystify design, clearly express and highlight tradeoffs and foster greater alignment with stakeholders.
It’s how I cut through the noise and regress to the mean of wants and needs.
Runner-ups
Figma
Sketch
Framer
XD
AE
AI
PS
Jitter
UserTesting
Miro
Mixpanel
HTML
CSS
JS (learning)
React (learning)
C4D
French
English