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Part of the “design” paradigm (besides making people use words such as “paradigm”) is the recognition of a “ménage à trois” situation : the designer, the client, the intended user.

“Get the job, get the job, get the job!” At some point it’s not true anymore. You know, when the job does not actually qualify as a design job. 80% of the time, clients ask designers to do styling and decoration. 80% of the time, I end up recommanding them amazingly skilled professionals in these capacities.

The most progressive usability, accessibility and desirability advocates are the same who give the hardest time to their clients through naming jargon and methodology gibberish. User-centered / Human-centered / User-centric / User-experience Designer. What kind of pleonasm are these? They sound useless.

If a car manufacturer asked me to design an innovative car, for the sake of innovation, a car would be the last thing I would look into. Now you might think twenty years of living France turned me into a stubborn party-crasher. Maybe so.

Sometimes people are at a distance, so people rely on devices to keep interacting. In other words, people interact with their devices to interact with each other, which sounds cumbersome.

I am a designer. If you ask a me a question, what you get is some sort of project re-definition. Re-assessing the situation is the process by which I try – hard – to understand your question. Still, I won’t give an answer right away. How annoying is that!