Published in Ippon Technologies·Nov 26, 2020Je design, moi non plus🎶 Dear, I fear we’re facing a problem I love you no longer, I know And maybe there is something that I can do To make me do 🎶 Qui suis-je ? Je m’appelle Nicolas et cela fait 19 ans que je travaille dans le digital. Juste au cas où vous vous poseriez…Designops9 min readDesignops9 min read
Published in Ippon Technologies·Jul 3, 2020Pourquoi je veux me débarrasser du profil d’UX Designer ?A moins que vous ayez vécu dans un monde parallèle pendant ces dernières années, vous n’êtes sûrement pas passé à côté du titre d’UX Designer. Très populaire dans les années 2010, il est encore couramment utilisé dans l’industrie du digital. D’ailleurs, j’ai occupé ce poste pendant quelques années sans trop…Lean Startup7 min readLean Startup7 min read
Published in UX Collective·Apr 28, 2020Member-onlyProduct Manager + Product Designer: an impactful yet hard to define tandemFor the past few years, I’ve worked alongside product managers in order to provide the best possible vision for a product that customers love and one that moves the company forward. Believe me, it hasn’t been a smooth process. We had to work hard at understanding each other’s job and…Product Design7 min readProduct Design7 min read
Published in UX Collective·Jan 24, 2020Member-onlyWhy do I want to ditch the UX designer role?Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the past few years, you surely came across the UX designer role. Widely popular in the 2010s, it is still commonly used in the digital industry. But what does it consist of exactly? — Starting with the basics: what does UX mean? UX = User Experience “So what?” you may think out loud… Well, before “user experience” was adopted in a job title, as a methodology or just as a part of a process, “user experience” simply meant a user’s experience as in a person experiencing a product or a service. …Product Design6 min readProduct Design6 min read
May 4, 2019Si j’avais eu mon bac…Quelle serait ma vie aujourd’hui ? Une question que je me suis souvent posée quand le doute m’envahissait. Comme le titre le suggère, je fais partie de ces bacheliers qui ont échoué en fin de parcours. Dans mon cas, j’ai envie de dire « doublement échoué ». Comme si une…Examen4 min readExamen4 min read
Feb 20, 2018Do we need apps?Two years ago, I left Sydney to go on a 2 months trip which took me back to Paris. On my way to the airport, my iPhone almost lost his “touch” feature… Bummer… No Google Maps, no Uber, no TripAdvisor, no everything… One thought crossed my mind : “What am…4 min read4 min read
Apr 13, 2015Mad Libs SearchA funnier and efficient research form. Co-written with Eric Nouri Since a few months, we’re discovering research forms quite unconventional… Instead of being presented with text fields to fill, they are displayed in a narrative way. Some googling later, we cannot find a proper adjective to name this specific research…4 min read4 min read
Apr 8, 2015The reign of notificationsMessages, emails, social networks, news, entertainment, sports… We are surrounded by notifications… How can we get the most out of them? If you think about it, our everyday tasks are distracted by notifications most of the time. They allow us to know everything we’d like to know with a single…5 min read5 min read
Mar 18, 2015Is your home page relevant?Client: “what about the home page?” — Me: “Do we need one?” Recently, I have worked for big clients on their product and at a point of the project, they all had this same question: “what about the home page?”. Here was my answer for most of them: “Do we…4 min read4 min read
Mar 15, 2015Responsive Web Design VSAdaptive Web Design Two approaches that both address the same issue: optimise the user experience across different devices Lately, I’ve come more and more face to face with this question: “which solution do we have to choose between a responsive website and an adaptive website?”. It’s time to clarify that. …3 min read3 min read
