The user-centered blog

UX &
human
factors

With real bits of users inside !

Field feedback, methods we've tested and questions we're asking ourselves. UX told by the people who do it.

Blue screen print on cream paper: a cobra rearing up behind a semicircular gauge graduated from 0 to 1, the needle in the middle.
Eco-design

Goodhart's law, the cobra effect and our EcoIndex score

When you set up performance indicators, the organization pivots around them, at the expense of its overall performance. We lived through it while rebuilding …

Hands covered in pink paint shape a vase striped with yellow, blue and pink on a potter's wheel.
Agency life

Redesigning akiani.fr, for the third time

When we kicked off the website redesign in March 2025, the goal was to refresh our identity and produce a new accessible, eco-designed site. But above all, i…

Figma board of the prototype: the mobile screens lined up, those of the tested journeys circled in yellow and linked by arrows.
AI

Dynamic prototyping with AI

A fully navigable prototype, built with Claude from our Figma mockups: how we went about it, what the testers said about it, the time saved.

Sketchnote and photographs of the talks at the UX days 2026
Events

UX Days 2026: what we took away from the talks

The whole Akiani team went to UX days 2026 and split up the talks, starting with Pablo Ruiz-Múzquiz's keynote on open source.

Akiani's session with a counting-technology solutions provider, moderated by Mario Fossati
Events

What a UX perspective changes in event security!

Looking back at the first edition of the ISSUE conference at Palexpo: what breaking down silos between perspectives brings to event security.

Akiani talk at Weezdays Festivals, festival-goer experience
Ethnography

In the festival-goers' footsteps: when the ground contradicts the plan

Eye-tracking at Garorock, 17 days at Paradiski, Paléo's ticketing: on the ground, festival-goers do the opposite of what they say. Weezdays Festivals talk.