Inge Schoutsen

Inge Schoutsen

Product Designer & UX Strategist

Looking for a creative, pragmatic and driven UX strategist? Someone who can create state-of-the-art customer and user experiences? I help solve business problems by designing seamless user experiences. I love to turn complex problems into simple and intuitive designs by aligning business goals with users’ needs. Over 20 years of experience, constantly seeking a perfect balance between business goals, user needs and technical feasibility.

Next tot my design practice, I am an artist represented by Josilda da Conceição gallery and an avid cyclist on the beaten tracks around Amsterdam.

RECENT ASSIGNMENTS

Creative Director

Creating a new publishing platform

Elsevier is a worldleading scientific publisher. Its flagship products include scientific journals such as The Lancet and Cell. Between 2014 and 2021, I have been working on and off several assignments.

Elsevier asked me for creative direction and UX strategy of a self-initiated concept on innovative scientific publishing with a paper centric and data driven approach. The manuscript files submitted by the author for possible publication are automatically transformed into a online draft article. During the submission cycle of submitting, reviewing and revision, the paper gets enriched with more data-structured content and evolves into a final publication. In my role as creative director, I did set the strategy, vision and design criteria. As the only designer in this pilot, I also created a user experience with tangible designs that we weekly discussed and tested with users.

MARCH 2020 - JULY 2021

#Concept #Strategy #Research #Product design #Design systems #Jobs-to-be-done

Institutional product

Product designer

Launching a new journal

Star Protocols, an imprint of the reputable scientific publisher Cell Press, asked me to work on the launch of the journal. I designed marketing, journal, article and search/ filter pages. Work also included future concepts and strategies.

OCTOBER 2019 - MARCH 2020

#Design principles #Strategy #Product design #Design systems #Jobs-to-be-done

https://star-protocols.cell.com/

Product designer

Setting up a privacy center

Elsevier asked me to set up a privacy center where users could manage privacy settings of products they use in the Elsevier product portfolio. To ensure privacy by design, I introduced an internal tool for products to manage privacy options according Elsevier privacy principles.

DECEMBER 2018 - APRIL 2019

#Design principles #Strategy #Product design #Design systems

https://privacy.elsevier.com/

Product designer

Create an OKR Tool

Elsevier asked me to design an OKR tool where teams could set and manage their business goals. Work included everything UX and design related: from research to concept, through visual design to last bits of execution. Tool got adopted by LexisNexis, part of RELX as the parent organization of both Elsevier and Lexis Nexis.

SEPTEMBER 2018 - NOVEMBER 2018

#Strategy #Research #Product design #Information architecture #Jobs-to-be-done

Internal tool

UX Lead & Strategist

Redesign authentication system

Elsevier asked me to work on the user experience of a new authentication system. Owned all aspects of design. Main focus on brand positioning, information architecture and research.

JANUARY 2017 - DECEMBER 2017

#Strategy #Research #Product design #Information architecture #Branding

https://id.elsevier.com/

UX Strategist

Concepts and prototypes of a research operating platform

Mendeley asked me to help them with design strategy and concept design. In collaboration with one of the co-founders of Mendeley, I created concepts and prototypes that showed how Mendeley as a research management and collaboration tool could enable the Elsevier platform for further expansion; giving researchers access to more content.

JANUARY 2016 - JUNE 2016

#Concept #Prototyping #Strategy

https://www.mendeley.com/