Stéphane Paquet.

UX Design · 1992–2026

I started with ink,
not pixels.

Thirty years of design practice, set down as a record rather than a pitch. From early Moleskine spreads to shipped SaaS — the same hand throughout.

  1. Personal product · 2025–present · Designed & Coded

    Four Degrees Feels Like

    Ask for a city, a date and a style; the app answers with people dressed for the weather actually outside. Designed and coded end to end, now on the App Store.

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    Peek-Now on iOS: Chicago, cloudy, three people dressed for the office.
    Peek-Now on iOS: Washington, mostly clear, three joggers dressed for a run.

  2. Brizo FoodMetrics · 2021–2025 · Head of Product & Design

    Linguini

    Brizo FoodMetrics’ core analytics platform for foodservice sales teams, redesigned end to end. A question asked, answered and followed by the next — without leaving the screen.

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    The live Brizo results view: filter chips across the top, a locked Opening Soon panel and result list on the left, a map of colour-coded status pins beside it.
    • 3×faster task time after launch
    • 5operational statuses, colour-coded on the map
    • 90 %feature-request rate on Opening Soon
  3. A hand-drawn pharmacy ecosystem: wholesaler, pharmacy, warehouse, lab and store, pharmacist and technician, customers, elderly centre and home, with a legend of medication codes.The prescriber’s pharmacy search on a phone: a preferred pharmacy and a recent one, above the keyboard.

    TELUS Health · 2018–2019 · Designer, NextGen EMR

    Point of Care

    A prescriber module that fed Canada’s national e-prescribing service, built across two acquired products with different data models.

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    ~70%of prescribers in Prince Edward Island’s provincial EMR program had taken up PrescribeIT® by 2023

  4. TELUS Health · 2014–2016 · Designer, Remote Patient Monitoring

    Who Needs Me First

    The screen a nurse opened each morning to see, across their whole panel, who was getting worse and who needed them first.

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    The clinical dashboard: patients grouped under High, Medium and Low priority, with the readings that need attention marked in red, orange and yellow.
  5. A workshop room: a red wall hung with hand-drawn onboarding flows on flip-chart sheets, above a table of laptops and sticky notes.

    CA Technologies · 2013 · Lead Designer, Identity Platform

    Sign In Once

    The console had to serve four very different administrators at the same time. We ranked them on a whiteboard, and one interface had to stay obvious to the first without insulting the last.

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    Six hand-drawn sign-in screens: an employee’s simple login, an employee or partner’s multi-step login, a login that selects an identity provider, and the Facebook authentication and authorization steps.
    The employee sign-in flows, sketched by hand.

  6. Desjardins · 2011–2013 · Senior UX Designer, AccèsD Mobile

    The Usable Bank

    Shipped on Android first; that reception led Desjardins to commission the iPhone redesign, which carried the same patterns over.

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    4.5 out of 5on Google Play

    A specification sheet showing the account list on iPhone and on Android side by side: the same accounts, sections and bottom toolbar on both, with a note on the toolbar.
    iPhone and Android: one pattern, two platforms.

  7. Amazon · 2011–2012 · Senior UX Designer, Browser Toolbar

    Permission to Interrupt

    Every behaviour argued on paper first, with the alternative written in the margin: “if too intrusive, the popover is not prompted.”

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    250,000Firefox downloads

    A hand-drawn page, Deal UX v5.0: the toolbar’s initial state, then the popover that opens from the gold box icon with the deal of the day and the first lightning deal.A hand-drawn page, Assist UX v4.0: a message in the search field, a badge on the search button, and the popover of similar items, with the alternative if it is too intrusive written below.The shipped toolbar on a retailer’s page: a price-match bar and a popover with the best match and three other possible matches.
    Deal UX v5.0 and Assist UX v4.0, on paper; then the toolbar as it shipped.
  8. The Market Intelligence screen for a listed company: institutional demand as a ratio of buy to sell shares, then price, then volume, on one shared timeline.

    Liquidnet · 2009–2011 · Lead Designer, InfraRed

    Lifting the Veil

    A public company had its share price and its volume, which is history. It had no read on intent. InfraRed gave it one.

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  9. Recruitsoft / Taleo · 1999–2008 · UX Designer, Recruiter Webtop™

    One Workspace, and What Came Next

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    • 6themployee at the startup that became Taleo — and its first designer
    • 9years building the recruiter interface from scratch
    • 190+countries, with Fortune 500 companies among its users
    • $1.9BOracle’s acquisition of the platform, 2012
    The Recruiter WebTop dashboard: requisitions, candidates, offers and tasks, each with its statuses and totals, in one frame.