lalao.fr - articlesAbout design with a designtag:www.lalao.fr,2005:b340a73577a583a4a90034f3da71768d/articlesTextpattern2024-01-20T20:18:02ZLalao HM. Rakotoniainalalao@lalao.frhttp://www.lalao.fr/Lalao HM. Rakotoniaina2015-06-10T13:15:08Z2015-06-11T12:16:29Z"You might as well identify the box first."tag:www.lalao.fr,2015-06-10:b340a73577a583a4a90034f3da71768d/8ded01bd45f89baade286c67d5f6c6e5
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.]]>
Lalao HM. Rakotoniaina2014-07-30T18:28:37Z2014-07-31T10:08:08Z"Designers need to shut up!"tag:www.lalao.fr,2014-07-30:b340a73577a583a4a90034f3da71768d/8d7822157d1c197d9a3c2d40eb429df1
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.]]>
Lalao HM. Rakotoniaina2013-05-22T21:34:16Z2014-07-30T19:09:37Z“Is Service Design the new New?”tag:www.lalao.fr,2012-11-12:b340a73577a583a4a90034f3da71768d/c6d47cb872cca19c5852b4619879e889
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?]]>
Lalao HM. Rakotoniaina2012-11-10T15:18:12Z2014-07-30T19:43:54Z“Be agile, don't title-stumble!”tag:www.lalao.fr,2011-03-29:b340a73577a583a4a90034f3da71768d/2ead2ea7cde7ab0d8aea87880ca7d2b3
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?]]>
Lalao HM. Rakotoniaina2012-11-10T15:17:42Z2014-07-30T19:36:34Z“Just don’t... get the job.”tag:www.lalao.fr,2011-04-14:b340a73577a583a4a90034f3da71768d/9071747ee5e452c40f5efdf50fafe4cc
“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.]]>