# Alban Carmet — Lead Product Designer

**My craft hasn’t changed. My scope has.**

Lead Product Designer at Vibe.co. Over 15 years designing products, most of them without AI, now with Claude.

In market · Canadian citizen, TN visa · Remote or US relocation

## Today, with Claude.

### My 2026 projects at Vibe.co.

- [Vibe Agent](https://albancarmet.com/project/vibe-agent) — Vibe.co, 2026 : Agent usage ×2.9 in an A/B test
- [Performance projection](https://albancarmet.com/project/performance-forecaster) — Vibe.co, 2026 : Budget recos applied 2× more than others

## The same craft, since 2010.

### From research to delivery, mostly in Figma, close to the product teams.

- [Driving product adoption](https://albancarmet.com/case-study/youtrust-adoption) — Youtrust, 2023 : Form creation in testing: 0/9 → 3/3
- [Building a product from A to Z](https://albancarmet.com/case-study/youtrust-atoz) — Youtrust, 2022 : Shipped in 6 months, 22 hypotheses tested
- [Creative Library](https://albancarmet.com/project/creative-library) — Vibe.co, 2025 : Library uploads ×4 in eight months
- [Data Visualization](https://albancarmet.com/project/data-visualization) — Vibe.co, 2024 : Opened by half of active advertisers
- [Scaling referrals with better UX](https://albancarmet.com/case-study/rakuten-referral) — Rakuten Rewards, 2020 : More referral shares on mobile
- [Reinventing home search](https://albancarmet.com/case-study/designing-a-housing-platform) — Liv.rent, 2018 : The whole rental journey in one app

Earlier agency work, 2011 to 2015: [Starz](https://albancarmet.com/project/starz-play), [ABC](https://albancarmet.com/project/abc), [Cineplex](https://albancarmet.com/project/cineplex), [France TV](https://albancarmet.com/project/apocalypse-10-lives), [Radio-Canada](https://albancarmet.com/project/liv), [Bench](https://albancarmet.com/project/bench).

## How I work with Claude.

### What changes, and what I still answer for.

- **Design system first.** Before changing tools, I rebuilt Vibe’s design system in Claude. The whole company has access to it, and a more visual version is in progress.
- **With Claude.** Claude challenges me on use cases I hadn’t seen and proposes from the business rules. A prototype or an animation now takes minutes.
- **What I answer for.** Which flow works best, and the visual taste. AI can get the intent right and break the whole hierarchy. No guardrail holds 100% of the time.

## What I take on, and what Claude changes.

- UX Research (User testing, Synthesis) : Employing rigorous qualitative and quantitative methodologies to uncover deep user insights and validate assumptions.
  With Claude (Benchmarks) : Benchmarks, through Mobbin and other sources. Listening stays human, with customer success and product managers.
- Product Design (UX/UI, Prototyping) : Crafting intuitive end-to-end digital experiences for complex SaaS and mobile products through strategic UX and UI.
  With Claude (Use cases, Argued flows) : Claude challenges me on use cases I hadn’t seen and proposes from the business rules.
- Design Systems (Scalability, Governance) : Building accessible, scalable component libraries and documentation that keep teams aligned and shipping consistent UI.
  With Claude (Lives in Claude) : Vibe’s design system now lives in Claude, open to the whole company.
- AI Crafting (Workflows, Prompts) : Integrating generative AI into the design workflow to optimize productivity and explore novel interaction paradigms.
  With Claude (Prototypes, Animations) : A prototype or an animation comes out in minutes.
- UX Strategy (Roadmap, Workshops) : Aligning user needs with business goals to define product vision and roadmap strategies for long-term success.
  With Claude (Plans, Options to compare) : Plans, such as how our design system is built and evolves. Given a precise goal and no set direction, flows with a solid rationale, drawn from the codebase and the business rules.
- Design QA (Screen review, Details) : Checking that what ships matches the design, down to the details.
  With Claude (QA skill, Circled gaps) : A Claude skill I built compares a design link with a PR, side by side. It circles each difference and says what to fix, which cuts the cases I could have missed.
- Shipping (DS gaps, Bugs, Small features) : Aligning design system gaps with production, fixing small bugs, shipping small features.
  With Claude (PRs with Claude) : I open these pull requests myself on GitHub, with Claude.

## Questions I often get.

### How does AI fit into your design work?
Claude is my main tool now. It works from our design system, the codebase and our tools, challenges me and proposes from the business rules. The flow we keep and the visual taste stay my call.

### Do you work strategically or tactically?
Both. I contribute to product direction and framing while also delivering execution-ready design artifacts when needed.

### How do you measure success?
Through outcomes — improved usability, product adoption, business impact, and team alignment — not just visual polish.

### What makes your approach different?
I balance research-informed reasoning with practical intuition, focusing on real-world constraints and outcomes instead of theoretical perfection.

### Do you need visa sponsorship?
No sponsorship needed. As a Canadian citizen, I am eligible for a TN visa, which does not require traditional employer sponsorship. A job offer from a US employer is sufficient to obtain my work authorization.

## You’ve seen my work. Now tell me about your business challenges.

Open to full-time roles for 2026. Canadian citizen: TN visa, no sponsorship needed. Remote or US relocation.

- Write to me : https://albancarmet.com/contact
- Take 15 minutes : https://calendly.com/albancarmet
- CV : https://albancarmet.com/Alban_Carmet-Resume.pdf
- LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/twitalban/