Antoine Valot

Coding is suffering.
Suffering is embodied in the endless wheel of the product life-cycle.
You cannot escape the wheel of the product life-cycle, because your mind is clouded by desire for a better framework.
Users cannot escape the wheel of the product life-cycle, because their minds are clouded by desire for features.
To be free of suffering, one must [...]

A whopper of a project!
I was able to set a good direction on the information architecture, and to keep everyone committed to a more-or-less standard navigation scheme. There was little I could do to influence the tone and tenor of the copy, but I did help cut down the marketese to a manageable level. In [...]

Built a flash-based complex data visualization and stratification tool for a higher education consultancy. The company helps higher ed institutions to recruit and retain students. This tool is aimed at targeting outreach and marketing efforts to the right populations of high-school students, to maximize recruitment success.
In technical terms, it’s a statistical analysis tool. Likelihood to [...]

Sometimes all a complex problem needs is a better metaphor.
This higher-ed consultancy, client of ours, has been struggling for years with transfers of large data files to and from their clients. Statistical analysis works best on large data sets, and in this case, the files reach in the dozens of megs, and they usually are [...]

Just finished a quick, bare-bones, low-budget redesign and custom content-management system for Innovative Consulting Group. Another fun little project, using simple “good old” ASP and an MS Access back-end. A little bit of database-driven Flash, as well.
I am starting to really enjoy little low-tech projects like this one. The cutting edge is fun, but sometimes [...]

Did a one-week stint in Houston, Texas for a large international oil company, helping fix an internal accounting app. As is common with enterprise engagements, we were not only putting together a unified dashboard for a set of disparate and incompatible financial and accounting systems, but also walking the slick tightropes of high-flying politics. 
It was [...]