Archive for October, 2008

Canal+ announces “Le Cube”, a revolutionary HDTV set-top box.

French subscription-based channel Canal+ and Canal Sat are launching a brand new set-top box for HDTV, IPTV and VOD named “Le Cube“.
The box and the user experience has been designed by Yves Behar at fuseproject (designers of Jawbone, OLPC among other great products).

Usability vs. User experience architecture

It is sometimes uneasy to explain why I use the term “User experience architect” instead of usability expert, or something equivalent.
It is mainly because I consider that usability is a set of tools the UX architect uses to reach a higher goal: building a system’s experience, i.e. the relation between humans and systems.
As an architect, [...]

Last projects i worked for

I spent a big chunk of 2008 working on a unified user experience throughout all Canoë/Quebecor Media properties. Sorry, cannot be more specific at that time… I’ll keep you posted when releases are starting to blossom.
I had the great opportunity to help the Standoutjobs.com team to tame their incredible creativity at developping crazy features for [...]

New Office

After a long break to take care of my newborn daughter, I’m back in a new office place in the Mile End shared with the talented people of Rita Design and Furni Creations.
The new address is
5445 Av de Gaspé, Suite 215
Montréal, QC, H2T 3B2, CANADA
514.995.6135