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The Web Atelier of the Alps

Grenoble, Annecy, Genève

Thibault Montaufray

Thibault Montaufray

A digital design and Design System expert, I design modern websites and interfaces directly in code. I put in place intelligent solutions that bring businesses and non-profits a real gain in image and online performance.

Thibault MontaufrayFront-end Design Engineer · 27 Years of Web DesignLinkedIn

Modern design that converts. Modern code that lasts.

My expertise lets me quickly ship effective, modern, easy-to-use products. Depending on your needs, I can handle it all — solo or alongside your teams.

Websites that truly help your business

Business sites, brand refreshes, event pages, portfolios, simple online shops. Beautiful, fast, and easy to use on any phone — built to make a great first impression and turn visitors into customers.

Websites that truly help your business

SEO & SAIO optimised

Built to rank on Google and surface in AI-powered search.

High accessibility

Built with accessible components by default.

Easy to update

Change your content yourself — no code, no developer needed.

Polished interfaces for complex products

The dashboards your team or your customers log into every day. I make complex business processes and productivity easier through well-designed digital interfaces, pairing with your team on the back-end.

Polished interfaces for complex products

Interactive & data-dense

Live dashboards and information-dense screens.

Coded directly

Built with your data, for faster development.

Seamless experiences

More efficiency and less friction, for fast actions.

A design system for ultra-fast delivery.

A modern creation process paired with a personal component library, drawn from my experience in design systems and product design. A faster build that frees up more time for the final result.

A design system for ultra-fast delivery.

Quality & flexibility

High-quality output and easy to adjust.

Transferable to your teams

On demand, the library and method can be handed over to you.

Vibe Coding-compatible

Built to plug into AI-assisted coding workflows.

For those who want an autonomous, efficient expert.

Smaller organisations value my ingenuity and accessible solutions; those with ambitious projects value my speed and experience.

New businesses and non-profits that want a high-performing first showcase.

You're starting out and every week counts. I ship a clear, credible site fast, easy to update yourselves, from idea to launch in a few weeks. Built with modern tools your teams can master.

Teams looking to modernise an existing digital product

Preserving what exists, I migrate your product to modern, high-performing technology to gain in image, mobile experience, accessibility, and load speed.

Businesses and non-profits that sell online

You want to sell products or collect donations, and avoid the weight of a Shopify or WooCommerce. I build lightweight, custom shops that help you convert, on mobile especially. Fast and cheap to run with serverless and headless solutions.

Teams launching an event, festival, or product

Online experiences that make people want to book. Trained in motion design and 3D, and building interactively, I deliver a lively event site, polished with online booking — rich, graphic, animated and mobile experiences that drive more conversion.

Independents who need a professional showcase site

Your next client often arrives half-convinced by a referral — the site just has to keep them. I build a showcase that makes your independent business look established and trustworthy, and creates a personal brand that reflects you, easy to maintain and grow.

Technical teams that need interface design directly in code

Senior design reinforcement for complex products, dashboards, internal apps or fundraising prototypes. Ultra-fast design and development in Next.js, Shadcn/ui that serves as a working demo and technical foundation for your in-house developers.

Solid foundations that adapt to your needs

Modern, proven tools and AI, under my expert control, to speed up the build and the quality of the graphic language.

React

React

The most-adopted UI library, with a huge ecosystem and an enormous talent pool.

Next.js

Next.js

Fast, SEO-friendly pages on a solid foundation, backed by a strong, active community.

TypeScript

TypeScript

Typed code that catches bugs early, for fewer regressions and safer changes over time.

Sanity Studio

Sanity Studio

A flexible content studio where your team updates content without ever touching code.

Shadcn/ui

Shadcn/ui

Accessible, customisable interface components for a consistent and polished look.

Storybook

Storybook

A large library of reusable components your team can keep building on, on demand.

Netlify

Netlify

Fast, reliable hosting with instant deploys and almost no running cost to speak of.

Claude Code

Claude Code

The AI assistant in my toolchain — modern and capable, always under my review.

Direct interface generation, expertly steered by AI

I use my creative and critical eye to iterate with an AI agent — as if I did it by hand, only faster. That saved time goes back into the finishing of your projects.

1. Frame, then prototype

We validate your goals and the technical complexity. I then quickly structure a working prototype from our discussions and your content, avoiding the mockup phase.

2. Iterate fast

You react to an interactive prototype, available online. After each iteration, the flow logic, the information architecture and the feel improve, until the structure is validated.

3. Style and optimize

Brand image, design and interactions are polished on a solid, coherent structure for maximum conversion. We also tune speed, SEO and accessibility before going live.

They trusted Indiecrafts.

A heartfelt thank-you to the teams and leaders who placed their trust in me and helped me grow professionally.

If you're looking for someone who can develop and expand your design system and speak the language of your engineering team, reach out to Thibault. Despite working for us as a contractor, I especially appreciated his ability to lead and drive his work independently.
Robert Kortenoeven

Robert Kortenoeven

Design Leader, Miro, ex-Zalando

Thibault did an amazing job during the last 4 years with us at BNPP CIB. From ideation to production, his knowledge, skills and expertise allowed to rapidly create well-designed products and services that are currently used by thousands of users on a daily basis.
Julien Veybel

Julien Veybel

Executive Leader · BNP Paribas CIB

His design approach including code very early in the design process was a perfect fit with our Agile workflow, lifting deliverable quality without slowing the cadence. His comprehension of business goals delivered high-end solutions that pleased our products' users.
Julien Laure

Julien Laure

Partner @ Theodo

Recent work, shipped.

A quick look at the websites and app interfaces I've designed and built lately.

Yak Architecture

Yak Architecture

La Grange aux Skis

La Grange aux Skis

Siemens AG

Siemens AG

Cinélangues

Cinélangues

The experiences that marked my technical and creative journey.

A selection of projects that pushed me to grow technically, adapt and keep learning.

An independent freelancer for 15 years, trained in image and web engineering, I work across consulting, design and development of interfaces and complete digital products. My expertise focuses in particular on front-end design challenges. I build digital products fully or partially, pairing with your teams. Over the years I've worked with organisations of every kind — BNP Paribas IP and BNP Paribas CIB, the BNP Paribas Group, L'Institut Français, SeLoger, Vente Privée, Theodo and the Conseil Régional du Lot-et-Garonne, as well as smaller structures and non-profits, with just as much pleasure.

Independent design & development

Wahio.design, my personal full-stack project — I explore the latest web design generation tools, generative AI, Vibe Coding and Edge infrastructure. This project let me refine and validate my recent skills in AI-assisted production processes. Designed and built solo, end to end. The service turns an idea into a wearable: just describe your idea and a generative pipeline, with 200 graphic styles and 400 themes, produces a unique design, printable on around thirty products — printed in Europe and delivered in days.

Founder & Developer

Siemens is a global conglomerate spanning industry, energy, healthcare and infrastructure across 200+ countries — with a dozen design systems built in-house and hundreds of designers. I proposed solutions to optimise the management of these design systems and knowledge sharing across many teams. I proposed different scenarios for the evolution of the internal design systems, along with solutions to bring together design teams facing the same challenges — enabling common, standardised practices to take hold.

Design Systems & Design Operations

Shipfix is an AI-enabled data and business-process platform for maritime freight — turning the daily overload of order emails into a powerful market overview for shipowners, traders and brokers. I optimised the product design system, folding in the brand language and mobile elements. A cleaner inventory, a full restructure of the Figma libraries and business-domain component classification enabled a faster workflow and safer file updates — and I supported the product team on strategic design projects.

Design Systems & Product Design

Zalando is Europe's largest fashion e-commerce platform; zDirect is the entry point for brand partners selling directly to its customers. I optimised the design system behind the zDirect marketplace for performance and usability, serving the teams and partners alike. I supported a 20-designer team and a 10-developer UI engineering team, smoothing handoffs between the design and development teams and setting up a dual-track agile process. I improved the documentation with ready-to-use examples, streamlined component publishing, and optimised the Figma library — structure, auto-layout and deprecation.

zDirect — Design System Manager

The Digital Marketplace is BNP CIB's unified platform for selecting, ordering, delivering and monitoring cloud products and business services — a collaborative hub for the bank's digital offering. The engineering team ranked 2nd at the Banking Technology Awards 2018. I built the atomic design system in ReactJS and Styled Components, working with 20 front-end developers and 50 domain experts — documented in Storybook, with structural constraints for standardised, fast construction that limits technical debt. Design sprints and fast iterative prototyping, up to a full refactor of the interface.

Digital Marketplace — Design System Engineer

NDA · illustrative image

The fast-growing Theodo group is dedicated to building complex digital products. I brought my design expertise to the engineering teams through Design Thinking applied to Agile / Lean methods, notably for BNP IP, Safran and Dassault Systèmes. The production method was extremely fast, built on short iterations: interactive prototypes and iterative product design on a short cycle, working closely with seasoned developers and product owners on projects with demanding constraints. Finished designs were delivered as merge requests.

Product design in code

Collaborated on the design and development of an interface for real-time flight data analysis, in the civil aviation sector. Cassiopé turns raw recorded flight data into actionable insight — maps, plots, 3D trajectory replay and live monitoring. The work happened directly in code with Theodo's team of 10 developers — improvements delivered via Git and Agile. Built in HTML, CSS and JavaScript, with a method of fast, successive prototype refinements, constantly adjusted with business feedback and respecting the technical constraints.

Civil Aviation — Design in Code

NDA · illustrative image

Contributed to the design and development of Safran's avionics automatic-support interface, in the military and defence sector. This automatic-support system spans pilot helmets, onboard computing and connected devices. Same setup as on Cassiopé: a design-in-code workflow with Theodo, fast continuous-improvement iterations shipped through Git within an agile team of 10 developers, in HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Avionics Support — Design in Code

NDA · illustrative image

Co-founder and digital designer of Spin Interactive, a Paris digital agency building websites and interactive experiences for major media and brands. Custom editorial platforms, publishing tools, multi-channel campaigns and brand sites. We designed and built digital products for clients such as TV5 Monde, Le Monde, France 24, Canal+, Arte, Le Coq Sportif and Siaci Saint Honoré.

Co-founder & Digital Designer

Fisheggs creates high-impact visual systems for television, streaming, and brands — blending decades of craft with a modern, exploration-first workflow that delivers clarity, speed, and standout creative. Real-world practice of advanced 3D and digital compositing techniques for US media. Concept boards, animated 3D scenes and final compositing. Adapted into different formats and languages for TV broadcast and on-air studio graphics.

Motion/3D Designer

The questions I'm asked most.

How I work, what I build with, and what a project looks like — the short version.

A hybrid role at the border of design and front-end development — often described as a "designer who codes" or a "UX unicorn".

Tell me what you'd like to build.

A short message is enough — what the work is, roughly what you're aiming for, and when. I reply within two working days with a few questions and a time for a 30-minute call.

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