Martine Brouillard

SpiriaÉcolo is a group of Montreal employees working to green Spiria and educate Spirians on environmental and consumption issues, and recycling best practices. Martine has an update on the group’s doings:

Last Friday, the sun was out, shedding its light on the efforts of fifteen Spirians who undertook to clean up the neighbourhood around Spiria Montreal.

As we all know, technology and software are constantly changing and evolving. But one thing never changes: the success of a software project depends on its adoption by users.

Let the odyssey begin!Over the last 10 years, I have embarked on every new project as if it were an odyssey. As a designer, I am very involved in the first phases of new projects, when we’re sailing blind in uncharted waters.Any new bespoke software…

This year, four Spirians attended CanUX, Canada’s largest congress of “UX’ers”. Here are my impressions of the event as a first-time attendee.

The Latest TrendA full-width site with a large photo in the background and a title in the centre, a logo on the left and a “hamburger menu” on the right. Sound familiar? Whether it be for a company, a product or a blog, many sites adopt this layout…

One can never overstate the importance of quality design for in-house applications. But it is so much easier to sell graphic services or ideas for sites and applications for the general public (“B2C”) than for internal use.

I have been working within Agile teams for three years now, and I love it. But it was not always so. At first, I had to overcome several problems: insufficient design budgets, lack of understanding of my role within the team, too little time due to…