About
My name is Christian Égéa (pronounced āy-jay-ah). I’m a French–American designer based in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Who is meant to benefit from what we’re creating and why? These questions guide everything. Design is one among several key functions ensuring an organization’s success. Cross-functional collaboration must be concurrent and iterative: teams alternate between learning and doing in short cycles, building confidence and grounding decisions in evidence rather than assumptions.
My work spans strategic framing and detailed craft. I shape how teams define problems, facilitating alignment across disciplines. I ensure that what gets built serves both user needs and business reality.
I design and facilitate cross-discipline workshops: from concept generation to journey mapping to teaching designers to prototype in code with the assistance of AI. Structured collaboration multiplies what teams can achieve. Investing in people’s capability compounds over time.
Since 2004, I’ve led design in healthcare, financial services, transportation, and security: domains where clarity isn’t a nicety but a necessity. Before focusing on design, I worked as a translator and educator. This may explain my instinct for making complex ideas accessible. Clear communication is foundational to good design.
Experience
I’m currently Senior Manager, Experience Design with SimCorp. Before moving to Copenhagen, I was a Lead Designer and Design Manager with Stanford Health Care, leading the UX for their patient electronic health record app. Prior to Stanford, I was a Senior Designer with frog, the global strategy and innovation consultancy. At frog I worked with clients like AT&T, Disney, and HP. Before frog, I was a Design Lead and Project Manager with Attoma, a product experience and service design consultancy in Paris, France. At Attoma I collaborated with clients like Thales, RATP, Orange, and Parkeon (now Flowbird)
How I use AI
I use AI the way I use any other material in my practice: deliberately and hands-on. Most often that means two tools working in tandem. I use a conversational assistant for thinking out loud, structuring an argument, and being argued back at. And an agentic coding assistant works directly in my own files to implement my decisions. I write the prompts, read the output, and fix what’s wrong, because when the AI reports “success,” that doesn’t necessarily mean “the outcome is as intended.” Since 2004, my sites have been hand-written HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This one was made faster with AI assistance but still owned and understood end to end. I teach this approach to teammates in Design and Product, and I name the trade-off: these are proprietary services, and the durable layer underneath is the open web, which nobody owns. The judgment, the framing, and the responsibility for the result stay mine.
About this Website
I designed and coded this website with accessibility as a core quality criterion, following WCAG 2.1 Level AA guidelines. Every interactive element is enabled for keyboard navigation, labeled for screen readers, and tested for color contrast in both light and dark modes.
This website uses the fonts Spectral, by Paris-based Production Type, paired with Barlow and Barlow Condensed by SF-based Jeremy Tribby.