UX · SaaS · A11y
Designing clarity into complex software.
Ten years shaping customer portals, dashboards and enterprise tools. I design products that keep their promises: rigorous in function, true in form.
— 01 / Work
Selected work
— 02 / Approach
Slow questions, fast iteration.
I treat design as a research practice with a deadline. The aesthetic is a side effect of solving the right problem with care.
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Listen deeply
Stakeholders, users, support tickets, sales calls. The brief is rarely the problem.
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Frame, then frame again
Reducing scope until the right product question emerges: sharp, falsifiable, shippable.
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Design with constraints
Accessibility, performance, engineering reality. Constraints don't limit the design, they define it.
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Ship in slices
Each prototype maps to a single feature, sized to fit a sprint and land cleanly in the backlog. Feedback comes faster. Assumptions close sooner.
— 03 / About
A designer who argues for the user.
I'm Hélène, based in Caen, Normandy, working with product teams everywhere. My focus is the unglamorous, business-critical surfaces: customer portals, internal tools, and the long tail of SaaS where good design unlocks real outcomes.
I'm an outspoken accessibility advocate. Accessibility isn't a feature, it's a right.
— 04 / Contact
Let's design something worth shipping.
The fastest way to reach me is by email. I read everything.
contact.hudesign@gmail.com