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Not only the Chinese invented the compass, they also happen to have five points on it. We do too by the way but we are just too busy to mention. This however is bad form.

I don’t know how it is in other countries, but in France at least designers need to learn to shut up. Designers know nothing, that’s a fact. However, they tend to object. Should they shut up, they’d learn something.

Is service design much like furniture design? No matter the problem, ask a furniture designer, you will end up with a stylish piece of furniture. Or, is it a process of harmonizing a complex system to make it fathomable and satisfactory in the eyes of a given audience?

The most progressive usability, accessibility and desirability advocates are the same folks who give their clients the hardest time through naming jargon and methodology gibberish. User-centered, Human-centered, User-centric, User-experience. What kind of excrementum bovis is this?

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

Today all practices have converged. So, the point is not what a designer can, wants or expects to do, but rather what is required to help the project move forward. At some point, every project will demand a disruptive solution. At some other point, usability and understanding become critical to get accross to the user.

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?!