Mat Blanchet
UX Designer at Hydro-Québec
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolMat Blanchet is a pragmatic UX designer based in Montreal with 13 years of professional experience and nearly two decades of practice creating user-centred digital experiences for major clients like VIA Rail and Hydro-Québec. He bridges design, research, and production—specializing in accessibility-forward solutions and privacy-aware experiences that prioritize real user needs over vanity metrics. Comfortable moving between interaction design, front-end implementation and documentation, he improves cross-disciplinary collaboration by clarifying requirements through research, prototypes and clear artefacts. His background spans creative tech, agency work and consultancy, and includes formal HCI and UX training from MIT and HEC Montréal. A French-Canadian tinkerer and guitarist, he brings a multidisciplinary, empathetic perspective shaped in part by personal experiences with tinnitus and strabismus that inform his accessibility advocacy.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Arts & Literature College Degree (in French), Art History, Literature, Media, Theatre, Arts & Literature College Degree (in French), Art History, Literature, Media, Theatre at Collège de MaisonneuveBachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Major in InterMedia/CyberArts, Minor in Computation Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Major in InterMedia/CyberArts, Minor in Computation Arts at Concordia UniversityUser Experience in Business Context, User Experience in Business Context at HEC MontréalHuman-Computer Interaction for User Experience Design, Human-Computer Interaction for User Experience Design at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science, Cognitive Systems and Interactive Media, (one semester), Master of Science, Cognitive Systems and Interactive Media, (one semester) at Universitat Pompeu Fabra
French, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (147)
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
emjibay/arts-et-medias
May 2020 - Mar 2023
A reference for critical content and resources about Media Art.
Contributions:1123 commits, 24 PRs, 639 pushes in 2 years 10 months
installation-artartscriticalartnew-media-art
jansensan/test-phaser-js-tile-based-movement
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:41 commits, 4 PRs, 21 pushes in 8 days
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