This is a written version of the talk I gave at WAQ19. Watch the video with English captions on YouTube. Last year, the Web turned 30. Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web, used the occasion to declare that he isn’t happy with the direction the Web has taken in…

Brain-Computer Interfaces will blow your mind. Perhaps literally. — There’s a lot of acronyms in tech today. AI, AR, BTC, VR, IOT. All of these are promising upcoming technologies. Companies are investing billions in the hope that they will be the next big thing. However, there is one acronym that isn’t getting that much attention. …

For designers and engineers who want a tech career in the US. — 5 years ago, I made a decision that changed my life. I said goodbye to my friends and family. I broke up with my girlfriend. I left my hometown in Quebec, Canada, and moved to San Francisco, California. It was difficult at the time, but looking back, it’s the best…

My controversial tip that will get you the interview. — Prefer video? Check out my YouTube video on this article. I’ve been hiring designers for the past 4 years. During that time, I’ve seen amazing portfolios and terrible ones. Among all of them, there’s one thing I see over and over that makes my life really hard as a recruiter: UX portfolios have too much text …

Why Google Duplex is a big deal for UI designers. — Last year, Google blew the world away with Duplex, an AI assistant that can make phone calls for you. The demo went viral and raised a lot of ethical and philosophical questions. Last month, Google announced an update for Duplex: it can now use websites for you. This announcement…

In the span of two months, I interviewed at Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google for design roles. Here’s everything you need to know if you want to do the same. — Check out the YouTube version of this story: 2019 brought a lot of changes for me. After four years spent leading UX/UI at Osmo, I felt it was time to work on something different. So I took the jump and interviewed at four of the biggest companies in Silicon…

Bitcoin and Snapchat are two massively popular products. While they’re both very different, at the core of their successes is the same counter-intuitive idea. Understanding it helps us see what the next billion dollar product might be. — Bitcoin One of the most important features of computers is that they can effortlessly duplicate information. It’s hard to appreciate how convenient this is. Before computers, if I sent you a hand-written letter, the letter was gone. There could only be one version of that letter in the world. …