During events like elections, media organizations have to live up to audience expectations and provide accurate and up-to-the-minute information. This holds all the more true for France Télévisions as a public service organization.
For this year’s elections, af83 helped France Télévisions design and develop an application available through a dedicated page of francetv info – its real-time, continuous information platform – and a widget, for displaying real-time election estimates and results, as well as access past election results and compare them.
"The widget allowed us to fulfill our public service mission, even outside the French territory, with a dynamic display of the election results as and when they became available," said Olivier Lendresse, Head of Sports and News Services at France Télévisions Éditions Numériques (FTVEN).
The af83 team paid special attention to the design of the user interfaces. Responsive and intuitive, they feature dynamic infographics to quickly visualize estimates, results and projections drilled down into particular geographic levels on a wide range of devices.
"This project was challenging in more ways than one: the widget had to be capable of handling workload peaks in the order of several million pages during the election weekend. There were also the issues of managing phases in order to comply with the legal restrictions on the publication of estimates and results, and testing beforehand the streams coming from the French Ministry of Interior," said Bruno Michel, af83 CTO, and Maxim Benadon, Lead Front Developer. "It was a critical project and we had no room for error: everything had to be ready and 100% operational for the polls."
In addition to the widgets available on its own platforms, France Télévisions has also made freely available a fully customizable widget that can be easily embedded into any website or platform. Since its launch, the widget has seen a rapid adoption by leading media websites worldwide: The United States (The Wall Street Journal), the United Kingdom (The Telegraph), Spain (El Pais), Belgium (Le Soir), Italy (Il Corriere della Serra), and other countries, as well as many French blogs and websites.
We are mostly looking for students motivated and passionate for open source and disruptive technologies, willing to become experts, contributing to open source projects and with a large technical culture.
The required skill-set for our developers is:
- Well, knowing how to write excellent, clean, test driven code either in Ruby, JavaScript (client side and node.js) or Erlang. It is good to know Python and C++, other languages welcome.
- Extreme familiarity with git or, failing this, mercurial
- Experience with REST APIs; and basically a deep understanding of what the web standards are, and how they work
- Knowledge of TDD, or better, BDD (Rspec)
- Knowledge of modern architectures (NoSQL databases, event/message orientation, automatic deployment)
- Again, contributing to an Open-Source project is a great bonus.
Practical Details:
- Duration: 3 months at least
- Monthly allowance: yes
- Location: Paris 2e
Interested? To apply, send an email to <jobs at af83 dot com> (French preferred, but English is OK). Don't forget to link your github/gitorious/bitbucket account if you have one!
Working within our UX (User eXperience), you’ll take part in designing user experience for web applications during all projects steps.
Here are some of the activities aiming at structuring the project concepts and making it usable for clients and other af83 teams (developers, projects managers, graphic designers…):
- Research and user tests
- Information Architecture
- Screen templating (wireframing)
An internship at af83 is also the opportunity to:
- Discover the web applications domain and get familiar with web technologies
- Learn by practical work on wireframing tools (paper then screen) and AI (card sorting, task flows, etc.)
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You are currently a student in an interaction design school or tantamount, autonomous, with good ability to listen and synthesize, thorough, but also curious and passionate about web…Come and join us!
Practical details:
Location Paris 2e arrondissement,
Duration: 2 to 6 months,
Internship allowance: Yes
To apply, send us your CV and portfolio to <jobs-ux at af83 dot com>.
Posted to our Senior Art Director, you’ll be in charge of:
- producing quickly and efficiently on the projects, as well as for internal projects and presale phases to a lesser extent: Visual vocabulary, drafts, templates, visual guidelines, bootstrap, etc.
- Depending on your skills and personality, other missions could be added to the position scope. Be creative!
Required Skills:
- Solid culture in web and visual design
- Passionate and skilled in designing interfaces: We do a lot more of user experience than website for events
- Proficient in creation software (Adobe Suite – at least Photoshop Illustrator InDesign)
- Proficient in the web graphic process : We definitely prefer HTML5 and co to Flash! @#
- Some experience in mobile design would be a plus – even though it’s a small part of our work, we think there’s a lot to learn and use there
Available asap, right now would be a plus. Salary depending on the experience.
You’re interested and want to apply for this position?
- You have strong convictions in terms of visual design and UX? Explain us!
- Send us an e-mail to <job-ux@af83.com> or come see us with some paper. If you choose e-mailing, send us a link to your portfolio!
We're actively looking for an expert and polyglot dev' (Ruby,
Javascript, golang,...) with proven open source contributions and a large technical culture.
The required skills are:
- Excellent level in Ruby, Javascript (or other) programming (both server and client-side). It is good to know Python et C++, other languages welcome.
- Deep knowledge on modern architectures (NoSQL databases, event/message orientation, automatic deployment) and web standards; and the ability to implement...
- Agile methodologies experience.
You'll be in charge of:
- Analyzing the projects technology issues, putting forward the right architecture, implementing it and checking if it's correctly done.
- Developing quickly and efficiently on those projects.
- Assuming leadership on the projects (being a scrum master, code review,
documentation, etc).
contributing to an Open-Source project is definitely a bonus!
Practical details:
- Localization : Paris 2e arrondissement
- Salary to be negotiated
Interested ? Contact-us on <jobs at af83 dot com>! Don't forget to link your github/gitorious/bitbucket account if you have one.
After a record-breaking first edition in 2011, Ruby Lugdunum, aka RuLu for the insiders, is back 22-23 June 2012 at Manufacture des Tabacs in Lyon. Two days of inspiring talks, both in English and French, exchanges with the Ruby community, and, of course, code.
af83 is, again this year, proud to sponsor the event and continue supporting and contributing to the French Ruby community.
"Last year, the talks were really interesting and held by people who knew their business. I think the 2012 edition will deliver on the same promises," said Bruno Michel, af83 CTO and chairman of Ruby France. "Beyond the conferences, it was great to realize that lots of people were interested in promoting Ruby in France."
Sites like RubyLive.fr and RailsFrance.org, not to mention the regular Ruby meetups and gatherings in a growing number of cities, are just a few of the many examples that the French Ruby community is indeed vibrant and dynamic.
Registrations for RuLu 2012 are open as of April 3rd. You can also submit talk proposals until April 27th.
af83's hiring a front-end developer, for a long-term contract, available asap.
Required skills:
- HTML5, CSS3, JS Expertise mandatory
- Good knowledge of JS (knowing jQuery, templating, tests, coffeescript and backbone would be a plus!)
- Web standards and User Experience expertise
- Development tools (such as git) proficiency
- Knowledge of Ruby on Rails and related tools (HAML, SASS,
twitter bootstrap)
- Adobe Suite (Photoshop mostly) proficiency
- Critical analysis of graphic designs / templates
- Ability to work on several projects in parallel
- Experience with agile methodologies
You'll be in charge of:
- Developing the front-ends on our projects
- Working with UX and visual designers and back-end developers to improve our processes and practices
- Ensure the projects quality in terms of interoperability, accessibility, display and performance
Contributing to Open Source projects is definitely a plus!
Contact:
Interested ? Contact-us on <jobs at af83 dot com>! Don't forget to link your github/gitorious/bitbucket account if you have one.
We’re currently looking for new talents to join asap our team of developers, UX designers and Art Director highly-skilled and passionate about web, innovation, creating memorable experiences and bleeding-edge technologies:
- one Senior Web Art Director
- one Junior Interaction Designer
Check all the details about the missions and the profiles’ requirements on our Job page.
New year, brand new identity for our blog, along with some changes under the hood… but there’s still plenty of interesting posts to read: techs, tools, pieces of advice… the best of the aviators condensed inside a blog.
af83 trusts the evolution of web standards to help us deliver top notch applications and websites.
Consequently, our website was designed with the latest web standards as supported by Firefox, Safari and Chrome, but not by the browser you are currently using.
Support for Internet Explorer 7 and 8 will be available in the near future.
If you would like to access our website we suggest you download the latest version of Firefox, Safari or Chrome.
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