Blog: Events
HCI certification
This summer I attended Scott Klemmer’s (University of San Diego, California) Human-Computer Interaction Class on Coursera.org. Coursera is one of these new Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) website, where students from around the world can attend classes given by prestigious lecturers and universities, for free. I love the concept, and was happy to take this class. After 10 weeks of lectures and assignments, I was awarded a Statement of Accomplishment. A good way of learning furthermore!
Edwards app featured at Salesforce event in Lausanne
An iPad application I have had the chance to work on was recently featured during blue-infinity / Salesforce event in Lausanne. The conference was about Improving efficiency of Sales, Customer Service and Marketing, and took place at the Starling Hotel yesterday. As a mobile POS iPad application, this application supports sales associates (who are also trainers in this specific context) follow-up their portfolio, plan and report activities. I have worked quite a bit on this kind of applications lately, helping companies have a better and more reactive knowledge of their customers and offering them a better experience.
Publication in ICT Magazine: Accessibility
As a Senior UX Consultant at blue-infinity, I had the chance to be published in ICT Magazine (November 2013 issue) with my contribution to a dossier about Web Accessibility. The dossier gave the context of accessibility (history, legal) and aimed to give wider opportunities with most recent trends and evolutions (like responsive web design for example.) I was in charge of the background article, on the legal and history context in France and Switzerland.
Mobile Swiss Expo Geneva: Clio on iPad apps for companies
Last week, I had the chance to be invited to the Mobile Swiss Expo at Palexpo Geneva. Among other conferences gathering local IT companies, I listened to Clio (a Geneva-based company developing softwares and applications)’s Head of Mobile Solutions, Yohann Pelé, present their learnings about iPad applications for companies. A presentation of their products, cDocs and cForm, was a good opportunity to learn more about clients’ needs, expectations and history with mobile business solutions. The conference was mostly about document sharing and interactive processes, which I have also found a recurrent request from clients.
Professional Scrum Master I
After a few lessons by a co-worker at blue-infinity and taking the online exam on scrum.org, I am now certified Professional Scrum Master I. Scrum is an agile project management framework, with a set of rules, tools and events for managing software development projects. It is an incremental (the project is built brick after brick, team focusing on sprints with a limited amount of functions to develop) and iterative (each sprint’s group of developed elements gathers feedbacks, then is improved.) The best way to get going is to get started: this method allows to build a project little by little, detailing it as needed, rather than having everything specified from the start.
→ All resources are available on Scrum.org, and an Open assessment is available on website as well.
Summer sales on Internet: 2012 figures
Summer sales are an important moment for retailers. What influence do they have on Internet? What kind of behavior can an e-retailer expect from its users? Here is a very interesting diagram by ifop and spartoo.com, with a few figures on consumers’ special behaviors and expectations during Summer sales in France.