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Journée mondiale de l’utilisabilité – 2012 – Montréal 8 Nov 2012 | 07:38 pm
Un petit mémo pour vous mentionner que c’est aujourd’hui la Journée mondiale de l’utilisabilité (World Usability Day). Je suis de retour à Montréal, Canada et nous avons une belle soirée en perspectiv...
Display of the Euros and the French Francs 22 Mar 2012 | 10:42 pm
It’s been 10 years now that France moved to the Euro currency, but still today, we can see remnants of the French francs (previous currency) in our daily lives. In 2002, they lived with a dual-currenc...
Wine glass AND screw cap 23 Feb 2012 | 12:48 am
On my flight from Montréal (Canada) to Lyon (France), I had the opportunity of drinking a white wine with a special twist (In fact, it was the bottle that had a special twist…). The bottle has its own...
Peeling Oranges… 7 Jan 2012 | 06:01 am
I recently found this ad laying in my bookshelf across UX papers and books… I just love it How painful, it is, sometimes to peel oranges and other citruses? Would it be wonderful to get oranges like t...
Introduction à l’ergonomie – Talk at Drupal Lyon 17 Dec 2011 | 02:39 am
Hier, j’ai eu l’opportunité d’introduire l’ergonomie à des développeurs et designers Drupal lors d’une réunion Drupal à Lyon. Le point principal de la présentation est de comprendre l’importance de bi...
Braille on Medicine’s Package = Accessibility 3 Dec 2011 | 06:28 am
Using Braille on pharmaceutical packaging, what a great idea!!! Just try to figure out how to distinguish from one medicine to another when you have few of them in your bathroom and you can’t read wha...
Video of IDEO and the Shopping Cart 12 May 2011 | 11:12 am
A really nice video showing the design company IDEO re inventing the shopping cart (the real one you use, or not, in supermarket) while using several different techniques such as interviews, contextua...
5 Usability Techniques Learned at Webstock 28 Feb 2011 | 01:08 am
For New Zealand techies, February means Webstock, a good conference. Like last year’s conference, it was very insightful with speakers as diverse as Scott McCloud (Cartoonist and author of Understandi...
Is It a Usable Packaging? 6 Feb 2011 | 12:31 pm
I love reading magazines, I was subscribed to Fast Company and Wired for several years before coming to NZ. Now, I still receive my UPA (Usability Professional Association) magazine here in NZ. As far...
