Alexis Brion

-Facilitation of design thinking, innovation and business strategy workshops. -General support for innovation projects: conduct research, prototyping, design. -Business analysis, design of new customer offers, market analysis, choosing the right technology to solve a problem and go-to-market strategy. -Implementation of innovation processes and digital product design. -Intrapreneurship strategy and open innovation.

Manage a remote team in 5 countries and 3 time zones. Ideation, workshop moderation, design thinking for product design. Experience on insurance product design for European countries. Example projects: Offer design for the banking sector (Italy). New cyberinsurance products (Spain and Portugal). Roadside Assistance digital innovations (Greece). Implementation of digital assistance services for home insurance (Italy). Product design for the health and telemedicine areas (Spain and Italy).

My team is in charge of running different Opportunity Scouting and Open Innovation activities to bring trends, ideas and entrepreneurs to Allianz X. The team is also responsible for the organization of innovation activities like workshops and education opportunities inside and outside the Allianz Group.

Lecturing "Lean Innovation", a practical course in which I show students how to innovate following design thinking and lean startup concepts. Past courses I lectured: "Design Innovation" "Ideation and Improvement of a Mobile App Concept". “Smartphone apps: from ideation to final product”.

Co-founder and leader at the Munich chapter of the IxDA, the Interaction Design Association. Organizing meetings, exploring learning opportunities and getting the local group together. More info: http://www.ixdamunich.de/

I coordinated the regional Leader Network for local leaders of the European Interaction Design Association, the IxDA. The Leader Network is an online community of more than 40 local chapters in more than 20 European countries.

Worked at the Product Team at amiando.com, designed for the B2B and B2C sides of the business. Led the complete redesigned of the interfaces, including the rebranding to XING Events and the interaction with external partners. Designed of responsive website and apps. Ideation, user testing, interviews, surveys, personas, prototyping and introduction of service design thinking.

Here is were I do consulting on user experience and interaction design.

At BookRix I helped designed features for the new portal. I also organized design meetings and workshops with colleagues to brainstorm ideas and create new solutions.

Interaction designer at Design vs Art, partner project with Nora Gonzalez Dwyer. User experience, prototyping, interface, product and interaction design.

Course on agile project management in London, UK.

Conference on user experience. Workshops attended: Designing for Emotion, Organizing Mobile Web Experiences, Better Meetings by Design and Lean UX.

4-day conference in Toronto, Canada, about IxD and UX. Joined as attendee and as part of the organizing committee.

Full-day workshop on Agile thinking and how to apply it to user experience design practice.

Joined the 4-day conference of the Interaction Design Association in Dublin. Attended the "Quest of emotional design" workshop on persuasive web design and co-organized a workshop for the IxDA local chapters.

Leancamp have revolutionized the internet industry by ensuring that businesses stay connected to the needs of their customers.

Service Design for Business: Key Methods and Strategies for In-House Teams. London, UK.

One day workshop in Leuve, Belgium, by Dave Gray, writer of Gamestorming.

UX Lx workshops: Designing Social Interfaces, Effective Design Documentation, Prototyping and Strategic User Experience. Lisbon, Portugal.

Full day workshop on how to integrate behavioral economics, neuroscience and game mechanics into a design process.

Seminar about different approaches to organize web content (e.g. alphabetic, geographic, format, organizational structure, task, audience, subject/topic)

Steve Portigal showed secrets on how to better interview participants of usability tests.

Arduino weekend workshop, open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible hardware and software. It's intended for artists and designers interested in creating interactive objects or environments. London, UK.

Met design professionals at the Sustainable Summer School to discuss and design the future of everyday life and rituals. Attended the workshop "Lifestyle Light", focused on the creation of new patterns for a sustainable lifestyle that people would like to adapt.

"Combining Requiriments and Interaction Design Through Usage Scenarios" course. Uppsala, Sweden.

"Understanding Users in Context" course on user centered research and design. Uppsala, Sweden.

Course on Systems Engineering for Technology Based Projects and Product Development. Project Performance International, London, UK.

UX Intensive by Adaptive Path. Courses and workshops on Design Strategy, Design Research, Information Architecture and Interaction Design. Copenhagen, Denmark.

"From Data to Difference" workshop at the Interaction Design Association Conference. Savannah, USA.