About
Hello, my name is Pascal Belouin. Welcome to my online resumé and portfolio.
My specialty is interaction design and evaluation. More precisely, I am interested in the application of user-centric development methodologies and methods and theories borrowed from the social sciences such as participant observation, discourse analysis, cognitive walkthroughs or quantitative data analysis to software design, and more particularly to requirement elicitation, information architecture and interface design. I am also quite interested in things revolving around agile development methods.
Download my Resumé I am also interested in graphic design, information architecture and programming in the context of the development of websites and web-based applications based on technologies such as Ruby on Rails, Zend Framework, JQuery and MySQL.
Featured Projects
moscee
moscee is an application designed to run on mobile devices such as the Apple iPhone™.
It can be used to painlessly and cost-effectively mark OSCEs (Objective Structured Clinical Examination). moscee can be used by any medical school, whether they have wireless internet or can access mobile internet through their mobile phone provider.
moscee can be modified to suit the needs of a large number of medical schools, to adapt to their particular way of doing things, and can even be run on your own server! Please contact me if you think we can help you, or visit the moscee website to get more information.
e-tips v2
e-tips v2 is a system currently processing in excess of £200 million of temporary agency labour spend p.a. for some of the largest companies in the UK, such as Royal Mail, Sainsbury's, Biffa, TNT...
Written in one year in PHP and MySQL , this large and complex system allows each client and each agency to electronically manage the working hours of each temporary worker. It features a large amount of complex functionalities, such as the real-time calculation of the entered working hours' total cost according to a completely customisable rate management system.
Great efforts were made during this project to ensure that the requirements were fully met, and even anticipated as the system grew larger. Thus, a proactive user-centric development methodology (indeed, almost a policy) has been adopted from the very early stages of the project. This entailed very close contact with the 'domain experts', the numerous stakeholders of the system. A three-days user study was also organised with numerous representatives of these different categories of stakeholders in order to test the prototype and to gather data regarding its usability. Please check out the article for more information. The commercial brochure is also available.
I have also been responsible of the design (including requirement elicitation, interface design, data architecture) of another system for de Poel, called Sub-e core. This system allows clients to completely manage their relationship with subcontractors, including the management of delivery routes, the particular metadata stored against various 'objects' of the system such as drivers, routes, etc... Working closely with a team of very talented developers and testers, we used a mixture of ajax and Zend Framework to provide the users of the system with a very dynamic user experience.
Interface Design for a Video Capture and Analysis Software Tool
Performed for my second Master Thesis (MRes in Human Computer Interaction, Lancaster University), and in the framework of the EUNZ exchange program, the objective of this project was to design the interface for a video capture and analysis software tool, with a particular focus on the indexation and “tagging” of the video and audio data produced by the use of such a tool, in order to allow its users to easily retrieve and analyse different pieces of video.
Blobby the Little Alien Explorer
An educative application in flash made using discreet plasma for 3D modeling. Please download the prototype Here (file size: 15 Mo). The academic feedback for this project is also available.
Website: Business 1st
This project consisted on revamping the previous website of Business 1st, a web development & web hosting company based in Lancaster. The work performed consisted mostly on interface and graphic design.
The implementation has been performed in compliance with the World Wide Web Consortium's HTML 4.01 and CSS 2.0 standards.