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User experience is story telling.

Everybody is talking about experience, or user experience, and, really, this is where we go.
Let’s make a simple analogy with the real world: we know that different buildings serving the same purpose, may (hopefully) offer various architectural experiences. Le Louvre doesn’t offer the same experience to its visitors than the Guggenheim Museum. Both are museums, [...]

Microsoft Expression

I have been invited to the official Montreal launch of Microsoft Expression next wednesday at the Ex-centris.
I wasn’t aware of that new incursion of Microsoft in the creative field. Here’s the pitch:
Better Designer Tools for Better End-User Experiences.
Microsoft® Expression® Studio takes your creative possibilities to a new level. The professional design tools [...]

Google Gears

Worlds are colliding* ! Are we going to talk about desktop… 2.0 ?!?
I installed Google Gears a few days ago, just for the sake of curiosity, and didn’t notice anything new since today when, browsing my news feeds in Google reader, I noticed a little green stranger after my name.
Devoured by curiosity I clicked on [...]

P2P, ISP and the media industry

A few days ago I was chatting in a sun bathed terrasse of Petite Italie with a founder of DEP, one of the biggest music distributor in Canada. The conversation went passionate about music, P2P, sustainable culture, etc. These are old subjects of interests for me because I’m both a culture fan highly frustrated by [...]