I felt compelled to write my account on this topic because I got alerted by the rampant misconception in my office. “I want to increase my skills in DesignOps” -One of my mentees tells me on the bi-annual performance review. For some people, it sounds very sexy, DesignOps. …

Revisiting back the fallout of the technology usage The premise of this project is simple: how do I become more aware of my screen usage? How do I use less? The challenge for Angélique, Elsa, Loic, and Joelle was to explore beyond the notification we see on our mobile screen nowadays to be aware of our phone usage.

I think everybody in design is at certain points taken by the material design in which you create a product. Getting the “hands dirty” in a real sense is something the digital designer probably envy of a physical product designer. It is quite rewarding to go through material exploration. Digital…

UX maturity or Design maturity is a measurement defined by the professionals to measure how design culture is integrated as a strategic force within the business. In this post I am putting User Experience Design, Design Thinking into one bucket as Design. …

We are in a miserable period, at least in Europe, where we have the anti-terrorist measures that often affect our daily routine of commuting. On top of the security measures, we also have the result of global climate change, where the transportation system gets stalled with floods, winds, and snows…

Our annual one day retreat At Axance, the design team has started the initiative ID Farm to grow innovation spirit last year to refine our skills. We learn by doing. Yes, that is the fundamental of Design Thinking.

DesignTech talk is part of the broader mission of R&D iD_Farm to instigate subjects that matter for society or human-centric design. The event is free and open to anyone. The monthly gathering happens in the elegant room of Axance with beers and munchies. It is a platform for participants to…

I believe you all watched the trailer made by Watson, IBM. I posted earlier (“Generative Music “) where there is a computer creative director. AI creative director needs an input of features (“creative brief”), before crunching out the commercials as a supervised learning. Unless McCann Tokyo tells me otherwise…

As I prepare some talk on the design practice surrounding artificial intelligence, I looked into critical design projects on the web. I love what students of CIID do. It is a school and innovation centre closely related to where I learned interaction design (IDII). The student has described my point of view quite clearly. Designers and other non-engineers in the domain of artificial intelligence are much needed as a development team member to bring in the personality of intelligence to fit to serve the system or users of the system. In solely engineering oriented field, especially in France where designers tend to be disregarded unless you are either building architects, fashion designers or other media “artists”.