Alexandre Plennevaux, 2019

Alexandre Plennevaux

The Gist

As a UX designer, I focus on humans' needs and motivation above all else. #no_bullshit

As a UX developer, I focus on user experience rather than developer's experience. For the moment, I enjoy a lot making PWA, as they make sense both business-wise and from the user's perspective.

As a teacher, I believe my role is to facilitate the creation of knowledge by the learner. I'm merely an enabler. Active Learning methodologies FTW

As a manager, I help the group grow into a team reaching optimal impact, where everyone feels efficient, focused, trusted and supported.

As a father, I now think my babies kids teenage daughters know better what is best for them and must be allowed to take risks, make mistakes and learn. They are the pilot and I, the co-pilot. Now, go clean that room!

In friendship and in love, I believe it's about offering honesty and let the relation shape itself, not imposing a ready-made model.

Life's complexity is what makes it beautiful.

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Projects

I enjoy building meaningful stuff on the web. Particularly the design, development, branding and marketing (SEO) parts.

  1. math.r

    math.r

    Math.r: A Progressive Web App/ game to improve your math skills by solving increasingly difficult math calculations. Built using Svelte.

    • type: PWA
  2. That's The Spirit!

    That's The Spirit!

    A collection of great quotes from art, design, literature, philosophy.

    • type: Website
  3. YURLS : Find your urls easily

    YURLS : Find your urls easily

    A Chrome Extension to help you find your bookmarks easily and with style.

    • type: Chrome Extension
  4. Visionary

    Visionary

    Coordination of a UX Research on web accessibility for people with colour blindness

    • type: UX Research

Writings (10 articles)

Like you(I guess), I am constantly being talked to on this web-wide world of ours.
Sometimes, I talk back.

  1. Constructivism as a teaching strategy

    Constructivism as a teaching strategy

    How to make your teaching more engaging and fun for your learners: give them the microphone as often as possible.

    • tags: Teacher
  2. Constructive assertiveness

    Constructive assertiveness

    Tips on how to communicate assertively and not aggressively, so that conflicts lead to constructive discussions.

    • tags: Manager, Teacher
  3. 3 questions to help you (and your team) prioritize

    3 questions to help you (and your team) prioritize

    A simple communication method based on SUN (Scope, Urgency, Need) to help prioritize.

    • tags: Manager, Teacher
  4. How to deploy a Sapper PWA on GitHub Pages

    How to deploy a Sapper PWA on GitHub Pages

    A quick and easy tutorial on how to deploy a PWA made with Sapper & Svelte on GitHub Pages.

    • tags: developer, teacher
  5. Gamifying a coding bootcamp: the BeCode LUX

    Gamifying a coding bootcamp: the BeCode LUX

    Here is a system I designed and implemented to gamify the trainings at BeCode and boost learners' employability, all based on OpenBadges.

    • tags: developer, teacher
  6. The easy way to turn a website into a Progressive Web App

    The easy way to turn a website into a Progressive Web App

    Here is a tutorial describing how to turn any website into a Progressive Web App.

    • tags: developer, teacher
  7. After the golive.

    After the golive.

    Personal notes on how to build long-term relationships with clients

    • tags: designer, teacher
  8. Designing from the outside, looking in.

    Designing from the outside, looking in.

    Findings of an onsite usability testing with end-users, followed with an interview.

    • tags: UX Design
  9. Comprendre le daltonisme.

    Comprendre le daltonisme.

    What I found out about colour blindness thanks to our UX research. In French.

    • tags: UX Design
  10. The Reductionist Manifesto

    The Reductionist Manifesto

    Here is a system I designed and implemented to gamify the trainings at BeCode and boost learners' employability, all based on OpenBadges.

    • tags: designer

Rants (11 rants)

If you are even mildly interested in what goes on in my life / mind beyond work, I also have this rants...

  1. How to save democracy from itself?
  2. We Need To Stop Calling Entertainers ‘Artists’
  3. BTCONF was 🤩🤪🚀 awesome
  4. Fatigué
  5. Automate deployment using GitHub hooks
  6. Helping your team become more focused
  7. Progressive Enhancement is non-negotiable.
  8. A new turn
  9. Tooth fairy
  10. Ode to the prototype
  11. The 5 dysfunctions of a team

The spirit.

Okay, that's about it! Let's finish with some stuff for your brain's left hemispher...

Holding on is believing that there’s only a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future. ― Daphne Rose Kingma