Christophe van Engelen, service designer based in Brussels, portrait
Strategy & Transformation · Product · Customer Experience

Turning complex business challenges
into products and services that are viable, feasible and adopted.

From strategy to rollout: business alignment, product framing, customer experience and field validation. 20 years of service design and UX, across banking, industrial mail, industrial IoT and legal tech.

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Selected engagements

Product strategy, customer experience transformation and service innovation across banking, industry, SaaS and international brands.

Recommendations
  • “One of his greatest strengths is his ability to turn data opportunities into compelling value propositions, a skill that was widely recognized and appreciated by everyone around him. […] Above all, I've always been impressed by his professionalism and his commitment to every project he takes on.”

  • “Christophe was a real driving force in our team: always on the ball, always up to date with the latest technological advances and possibilities, he put forward interesting avenues for meeting users’ needs simply and thus turning complex banking challenges into simple journeys. With him, projects move forward all the better because he is always willing to work with his team, as his goal is to move the project forward, not his ego.”

  • “Christophe has a real ability to structure a brand and product vision, then turn ideas into tangible experiences. […] I recommend Christophe without hesitation to anyone looking for someone who can move projects forward, from vision through to execution, in an entrepreneurial or corporate context.”

How I work

I enter through the business, stay close to IT and validate with users.

I connect business value, technical feasibility and adoption before a solution is locked in. This is how a strategic intention becomes a product that can be tested, built and deployed.

Track record

From UX/UI to service design, and on to entrepreneurship

  1. 2026 — Present Unfold Partner · Product / Service Design Lead
  2. 2025 — Present WeJustice Partner · product strategy, UX and MVP Read the case →
  3. 2024 — 2025 SPEOS · bpost group CX / UX / Service Design Consultant · 6/6 pilots validate, to production Read the case →
  4. 2022 — Present Homerun (Choeke / Bizzbro) Partner · UX / UI rebuild
  5. 2021 — 2022 Ewon by HMS Networks Service Design + UX/UI Consultant · €2M unlocked for production Read the case →
  6. 2020 — 2021 DCY · Dubai UX Lead · investment platform
  7. 2019 Belfius Service / UX Design · banking SME journeys
  8. 2015 — 2019 BNP Paribas Fortis UX Lead digital banking, then Service / UX Design · SME data product MVP · Léonidas commits before the build Read the case →
See the full history, 2006 to 2015
  1. 2014 — 2015 Cezzam Owner · local retail platform
  2. 2012 — 2015 Hi-Def Creative / Art Director
  3. 2006 — 2012 My Media Is Rich Creative Director · award-winning digital campaigns

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About

From creative direction to product strategy

I turn complex business challenges into products, services and experiences that teams can understand, align around, test and deliver.

I work as a freelance service designer in Brussels, on product strategy, customer experience and UX assignments in Belgium and across Europe.

My career began with what users see, understand and remember. After working in visual effects, motion design and early interactive experiences, I joined Digitas, where I contributed to digital interfaces and services for organizations including Belgacom, Proximus and BICS.

I then co-founded and led My Media Is Rich, an interactive creative agency that became a preferred partner of D'Ieteren, Audi's importer in Belgium. We won assignments for Coca-Cola, Dragone and AstraZeneca, and received several international distinctions, including recognition from FWA and Awwwards.

We also created pioneering digital campaigns for the Audi A6 on LinkedIn and the Audi A1 on Facebook, as part of the Made by Belgians initiative.

That experience taught me how to build an offer, earn the trust of major clients, lead creative and technical teams, defend ideas with decision-makers and turn brand ambition into experiences capable of generating attention, engagement and business value.

In 2014, I founded Cezzam, a platform connecting local businesses with their communities. I defined the product vision and value proposition, recruited the development team in Vietnam, launched the platform and later transferred the venture to an industry player.

Leading a product end to end broadened my role. I learned that the interface is only one part of the solution: business model, operations, technology, acquisition and adoption must move together.

I later brought this broader perspective to BNP Paribas Fortis, Belfius, HMS Networks and SPEOS: clarifying opportunities, understanding service systems, aligning stakeholders, defining the right MVP and obtaining evidence before further investment.

At BNP Paribas Fortis, a new B2B service proposition secured the engagement of a pilot client before development. At HMS Networks, a unified product vision helped secure €2M for industrialization. At SPEOS, a new SaaS experience was tested and validated with client pilots.

Today, these experiences come together at WeJustice, which I co-founded. My role spans product strategy, business model, member experience, acquisition, CRM, analytics and the deployment of a European platform available in 24 languages.

I remain able to work through execution: journeys, interfaces, prototypes, product architecture and AI-assisted development. But these are means to a broader goal: making strategy tangible, testable and deliverable.

I enter through the business, stay close to IT and validate with users.

I am an independent consultant based in Brussels, working in French, Dutch and English.

Recognitions

Awards and recognition

  • FWA Dragonne site and other projects, made at My Media Is Rich as Creative Director.
  • Awwwards Several award-winning digital projects, made at My Media Is Rich as Creative Director.
  • Creative Wallonia Startup competition won, with a funding round for Unfold.
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