UX Design student - Paris

Alexandre Dias.

Third year at Paris IIIe. Designing the small things. Trying not to lose more socks to the Marais laundry system.

Read by case
Selected operations2023 - present · 4 entries
  1. 01

    Daily 16:59 panic.

    Mobile UX / Stress engineering2025
  2. 02

    The half-size problem.

    Footwear research / Zalando log2024 - ongoing
  3. 03

    Cognitive outsourcing to Poke.

    Operations / Inbox triage2026
  4. 04

    Le 75003.

    Residential design / Block-party anthropology2023 - present

Four ambiguous findings. None earned a deploy. All of them kept me alive. Read each one as a small portrait of someone who is, against clinical advice, optimising for both Bordeaux and 42 2/3.

Every weekday at 17:00 sharp, the free seat lottery opens. It lasts ninety seconds.

TGVMax is a subscription that hands out zero-euro TGV seats across France. It also punishes anyone who blinked at the wrong moment.

Each weekday at 17:00 sharp, the rolling booking window closes for another day. By 17:01, every empty seat from Paris to Bordeaux is somebody else’s small private victory.

Below is a live countdown to my personal panic threshold, set to Paris time. Operators expect loud noises.

Live · countdown to 17:00

--:--:--

until the next TGVMax window closes · Paris time

Booting the ticker. Pour a coffee.

SNCF Connect17:00:00 sharp

// TGV INOUI · Paris → Bordeaux

0 € max
si réservé avant 17:00.

Départ

Paris Montparnasse 1

Arrivée

Bordeaux Saint-Jean

Durée

2 h 04

Prix

0,00 €

Figma-free mockup. Drawn from memory and resentment.

Operational profile.

Self-assessed · n = 1

Methodology: vibes, plus one spreadsheet I lost.

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