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From UX to app-making: a self-taught journey
After about 20 years as a UX Designer, I started feeling this eager to actually make something. Not a mock-up or a wireframe. The real product. 3 years later, my first app is live on the Play and App stores, I am working on a PRO version and starting my first ever PR campaign to promote it and reach my users. From learning to code with Flutter and dart to how ChatGPT and Copilot helped me through that journey, here is a summary of how it went.
Celebrating my 10th conference as a speaker!
My talk at the 2024 Congrès de la SMP (Société Suisse de Management de Projet) on the 4th April in Lausanne was my 10th conference as a speaker. During 1h30, I introduced participants to data visualisation and lead them to experiencing data storytelling. It was a great event, and I was thrilled to see in the audience participants from previous workshops. I’ll come back with a focus on this topic. But first I wanted to take this opportunity to celebrate this special anniversary and look back at my learnings as a UX speaker.
What UX owes to journalism
User Experience design is an interesting mix between many work areas, including cognitive psychology, marketing, graphic design, coding and many more. Among those roots that still inspire me on an everyday basis as a UX, I wanted to focus today on my early days passion for journalism and what it brings to my practice as a consultant.
15 tips to make your international online workshop a success
I believe collective intelligence represents a huge power for changing the world and transforming organizations. Working for an international structure, most of the workshops I have facilitated lately have been online and international, which adds up to the complexity of organizing a successful and insightful working session. Taking a step back, here are, in a totally random order, my 15 key tips to make your international online workshop a success.
Des 5 « pourquoi » aux 5 « comment »
Vous connaissez certainement la méthode des 5 Whys, popularisée par Toyota et l’excellence opérationnelle ? L’idée est de se forcer à dépasser les symptômes pour investiguer jusqu’à la source d’un problème. Prenons un exemple connu dans le contexte d’une chaine de production : on produit moins. Pourquoi ? Parce que la machine est cassée. Pourquoi ? Parce que les pièces sont usées. Pourquoi ? Parce qu’on a une fuite d’huile. Pourquoi ? Parce que l’huile utilisée est trop liquide. Vous comprenez le principe : on part d’un problème constaté (symptôme) et on remonte grâce à des « pourquoi ? » jusqu’à la source de ce problème (root cause ou cause racine.)
Petit manuel anti page blanche
L’angoisse de la page blanche, vous connaissez ? Si on a déjà travaillé ensemble, alors vous savez certainement que la co-création est un de mes sujets favoris (et je suis toujours disponible pour en discuter !) Pour autant, il peut être difficile pour certains participants à un workshop de se lancer et laisser libre cours à leur créativité.