Estelle van Ravestyn

INTRODUCTION

Hello, I’m Estelle.

Originally from Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪, and now based in Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪. Design background → evolved into a Senior User Researcher. Specialization: Bridging mixed method research, product strategy and design.

Selected work

01

Hands-on user research projects

Podimo

Fan engagement beyond listening

User Research: Estelle van Ravestyn

Co-creation was chosen because the answer isn’t in behavioral data. It’s in the moments, motivations, and unmet needs that sit behind how people engage with content.

Spotify

Queue on TV

User Research: Estelle van Ravestyn

The Queue is not available on the Spotify TV app. Building this would take several engineering months — is it worth the investment, and if so, what should the team focus on?

Soundtrap

Activation study

User Research: Estelle van Ravestyn

Quantitative activation segmentation analysis and qualitative remote, in-depth user interviews, to uncover why new users’ activation declines in the studio.

02

AI & Research Ops

Podimo

AI skills, toolkits and repositories

Built and maintained

Recently established AI skills, toolkits and repositories (ex. GitLab & Claude Code, NotebookLM for Quant/Qual insight repository) to fast track analysis processes, insight delivery and scaling Research Operations.

Spotify

Democratizing unmoderated usability training for designers

Designed and ran the training

Empower designers to organise usability testing themselves to speed process & catch low hanging fruit insights right during the design process already.

03

Sideproject

FOUNDER

Participant Pal

Self-initiated, built solo

One workflow for participant recruitment, instead of jumping between analytics tools, user databases, email, calendars, scheduling platforms, spreadsheets and note-taking tools.

Contact information

Questions? Happy to meet and chat!

evanravestyn@gmail.com · Linkedin

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