Hugo Averty is a product design leader with 13 years of experience shaping digital experiences from studio to scale, currently heading Product Design at WorkAdventure and freelancing as a product designer. He blends product strategy, UX craft, and front-end hands-on work—evident in his contributions to the popular open-source WorkAdventure repo where he improved chat and UI components for the platform’s game-like virtual offices. Previously he ran a business unit at TheCodingMachine and led digital teams at agencies, giving him cross-functional fluency in delivery, client work, and team leadership. Based in Montpellier, he combines a Master of IT with an entrepreneur’s mindset, frequently toggling between strategy and implementation. Colleagues rely on him to translate playful, spatial interactions into pragmatic product decisions that boost engagement for remote and hybrid communities.
A collaborative web application (virtual office) presented as a 16-bit RPG video game
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:14 PRs, 122 pushes, 14 branches in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Hugo primarily focused on front-end UI improvements and bug fixes within the WorkAdventure project. Their commits show modifications to the chat interface, including changes to the appearance and functionality of web links within the chat. They also updated the UI for the game play, specifically modifying components such as the loader and menu elements. Furthermore, the user worked on test files.
Contributions:3 PRs, 51 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 11 months
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