About me

As a designer

I spend most of my time walking in other people’s shoes.
I have extensive experience in accessibility, design, researching and helping company implementing standards.

I create prototypes out of paper, home made play dough and sometime using Principle.

Relevant skills I'm learning:

  • Empathy
  • Communication and story telling
  • Constructive criticism

As a geek

I'm not afraid to get my hands dirty playing with JS, SASS and occasionally Bourbon.
I know what / who Cylons are and I don’t use a graphic interface to commit my changes.

I've helped trained several machine learning models and developped AI features, one is even named after me.

Relevant skills I'm learning:

  • There is no such thing as styling in html
  • App script is my friend but it is not JS's.
  • I deliver the most eng friendly redlines

As a dad

I’m the proud dad of K & LT.
I can change a diaper in an airplane bathroom in under 4 minutes.
I learnt how to fix magic wands and fire trucks.
I bake over-engineered birthday cakes for my kids every year.

Relevant skills I'm learning:

  • Patience
  • Empathy
  • Children, like users, rarely take the carefully designed path

As an creative

I feel physical pain when I see a 2px misalignment.
I know that purple is not a color.
For me, if it is done on a computer it should be pixel perfect.

Relevant skills I'm learning:

  • Deconstruct design process and objectivize quality
  • Balance and alignment
  • You learn more about the master's drafts than his master piece.

As a biker:

I got my first bike when I was 9 years old (Yamaha Ty 175).
I own a Buell Lightning xb12s Cherry Bomb, a club style HD Sportster and a Triumph Tiger.

Relevant skills I'm learning:

  • Forecasting and anticipation (lane splitting)
  • Augmented reality design (designed an augmented helmet interface, before Skully)

As a DIY enthusiast:

I own 10 goats, 2 sheep, 4 dogs, 7 cats and 2 owls.
I can build a table without screw, using mortise and tenon.
I cure salmon, craft energy drinks, make hand pulled noodle and smoke ham.

Relevant skills I'm learning:

  • Reverse engineering
  • Permaculture
  • Solar energy for homestead
  • Time management (WIP)