What i was doing in 2007 (drums and weird back vocals).

Miss those times !

Illustrations

I am not a natural born illustrator, however I sometimes do some. I tried to figure out a place where to store them. My portfolio, or another one … Finally it’s here in my blog. 

More personnal work to come soon i hope

Style wars: (too)detailed ux VS Clean ux

I am freelancing a lot these times. And when you have lots of projects and interning (at bigspaceship !), it’s hard to be focused on what you have to do. I have been slowly influenced by blogs such as the99percent for productivity techniques. The best way I’ve experienced so far is to have a big roadmap ( i am using google calendar for that ) and a daily roadmap.

For this daily roadmap, I’ve been using plenty of tasks management tools without being really satisfied, because these apps which most of them are available on mobile and your computer, are too complicated.
Lastly I’ ve been using wunderlist, which i must say is a great tool. Event if i found some functionnalities a bit blurry. 

But  the last one i am using, who is doing the same in a better way is any.do . For me it’s better for 2 reasons :

The reminder are more clear and action focused ( call xxx, do that, xxxx)  and provide a quick access to what your task says.
i.e if you say call someone, the reminder will allow you to call this person straight from it !! That’s great

a clever reminder any.do

And the second reason is that the ui si more clear. It’s only sharp fonts on a plain white background.
And here come my point:

Influenced by the slick 1 pixel lightning design and smooth textures of the Iphone, almost all apps ( and also website)  have this kind of design, which for me don’t make them really different from one to another and too complicated for your eyes:


Wunderlist over detailled interface 

Any provide a cleaner and more memorizable list of tasks 

I am on android but as everyone is saw this app available on the iphone market : CLEAR .Another app - its ux is the new trend we will/must see in the future. And especially for tasks, your brain need to print that list you have on the screen, the less graphically complicated it is, the more you’ll remember them !


The Clear app ui is …. very clear !

If we look closer, it’s not too far from the windows phone ux principles : Big letters, simple colors, no gradients.


Another quick reflexion, button use to be blue links, it took time for common people to understand its meaning, then it became glossy, shiny with a bevel, wich is an imitation of the ‘real life’ button and makes it more understandable. Now everyone (almost) understand the principle of ux, and everything is clickable, button tend to be flat, and clean as seen on any.do or Clear.

I must say i am more happy with this trend and hope to see more diversity in app design than the 3 tools everyone is using since the supremacy of the iphone :

• Light textures, 
• 1pixels lines for highlights or shadows,
• smooth gradient,
• Drop shadows.

And how sad is the work of a designer when it’s only about applying these 3 effect on a too detailed wireframe ?

We tend to forget the meaning of design ( french word by the way )
design = dessin (drawing)+ dessein (goal)

Part of the work i have done for the MTViggy project . Few frames and a lots of hours …

violence collective project done in few hours during a long long night . Learning everyday :D

Last module at hyperisland

Just starting with friends the last module called the agency. We named ourselves cousteau in reference of the pioneer explorer Jacques Cousteau. Our client are SVT (National television ) and BETC( french advertising agency )

Follow our work here

http://cousteaucollective.tumblr.com/

http://www.cousteaucollective.com/

or here

https://twitter.com/#!/CousteauCo

Script writting for music video

I am working on a music video project with my fellow Antoine. Pretty fun new experience.

To do that we are using this really good software called celtx that has a number of good functionnalities.

The free version is quiet good as well, so if you need to be organised and get your hands dirty on a scenario download it here : http://celtx.com/

Pizzapp project #2

This is the second episode of my progression on my personnal project named now pizzap. I will go through my process but i ll probably keep the idea secret until the end, stay tuned

Tonight I started learning air for Android to publish and create soon the app i am working on, remember ?

With using flash, i am able to create simple application and as i know a bit of as3 it shouldn’t be too hard. 

Starting with this gotoandlearn tutorial is great !

I am feeling a bit of a developper tonight  ;)

If you want to get your hands dirty , a good start is gotoandlearn.com tutorials:

I don’t know yet, but as this application will probably handle a lot of video/motion graphics made by my friend Antoine, i might use Gaia framework to have an easy ready to work structure.

I am happy to see this project coming, but if i stick to my plan, i still have a lot of work on the website and the “viral” video.

Cheers and good Sunday

Amadeus: So.. who is Amadeus? and what do they do?  →

hyperamadeus:

The Amadeus team exists out of 6 Hyper Island students following the Interactive Art Director program in Stockholm. The teammembers: Charlie (FRA), Charlon (NED), Luis (POR), Reidun (NOR) Pauline (SWE) and Samuel (SPA).

Check out the video to get a feel of our team:

Right now we are in the…

My first app is a Pizzap’

I am at this time working on a personnal project.

It includes Pizza, app, explosion and motion graphics. A good way of applying my knowledges in one project. To be updated …..