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 me poser de questions à l’époque, certainement par manque de maturité. Alors pourquoi voudrais-je m’en débarasser ?

Commençons par la base : que signifie UX ?

UX = Expérience Utilisateur

“Et alors ?” me diriez-vous… Eh bien, avant que “Expérience Utilisateur” désigne un métier, une méthodologie ou bien une partie d’un processus de conception, l’expérience utilisateur signifiait tout simplement…

For 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 how we can work together to become complementary. So, how exactly can these two work together?

Before going any further, let’s see what these two roles consist of.

The Product Manager

From my experience, the Product Manager (a.k.a. PM) is responsible for setting the vision of a product and leading the cross-functional team…

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. End of story.

The term “user experience design” came up in the early 90s when Don Norman joined Apple for defining all that UX is, making him the first person to bear UX in his job title.

“I invented the term because I thought human interface and usability were too narrow…

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 fois ne suffisait pas, j’ai retenté le coup une seconde fois, essentiellement pour faire plaisir à mes parents et suivre la voie « normale ». Quelle erreur ! J’aurais dû taper du poing sur la table et expliquer à mes parents ce que je ressentais au plus profond de moi…

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 I going to do without a phone?”. Desperate for a miracle, my angry finger ripped the home button long enough in order to wake a forgotten Siri up… Suddenly, (limited) options were still available after all.

Is voice the new hand?

As I hadn’t used Siri that much, I had to see what it was…

A 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 modus operandi. So let’s name it “Mad Libs Search”!

Mad Libs is a wordplay in which the player must complete a sentence with holes to build a story.

How it’s applied on the web

Mad Libs isn’t at its first try. In 2008, Jeremy Keith created one of the first Mad Libs forms for Huffduffer, his…

Messages, 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 glance. With the rise of smartwatches : it will be even worse. How can we get the most out of our notifications?

First: what is a notification?

A notification is a message pushed on our device and displayed outside of the application’s user interface. It is basically a message displaying a text message, an email…

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 need one?” Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t say the home page was useless, but its concept has evolved lately.

How this happened?

The home page has long been regarded as the most important page of a website. That’s why it had the spotlight during the design process. But this is not the…