Félix Ménard
Product designer & engineer · Audio and AI · Lecturer, UQAM
I design and build digital products and have done it for 20 years. I've led small teams at startups and large companies and run products of my own.
My recent work centres on AI systems and developer tools, with a focus on audio. I teach interaction design at UQAM’s School of Media and keep a steady stream of open-source experiments and side projects.
Open to research collaborations and to building audio products and plugins with teams.
Now
Founder, Maru Audio ↗
Fragile, a design & development studio ↗
Lecturer, UQAM School of Media
ISMIR 2026 · Late-breaking demo, forthcoming.
Selected work
- Maru Audio — My current work on audio products, instruments and effects.
- AskMRI — Built a research system with a viewer, CLI and 120+ models.
- Fragile — Built a community platform from scratch, now with 500k members.
Earlier audio experiment: OSC1 / Codex Music (web synthesis). This work now continues through Maru Audio.
Developer tools
- WebLLM.org — A standard inference protocol for AI on the web.
- Cookskill — A simple todo tool for agentic app development.
- Folderblog — Your filesystem is the CMS.
Other projects
- Inspire.cards — 100+ card decks for creativity, reflection and workshops.
- Slidepig — Create slide decks easily.
- whyfull.app — Hard drive full of AI projects? A tool for agents to inspect and manage storage.
- Kicking Lotus — A small wellness business in Quebec that I co-founded
- Airports.guide — Guides for 300+ airports (I travel a lot and it comes in handy)
- Ecole de Montreal — A collective embodied each year by students creating immersive and interactive experiences.
- Liveposter — An animation library that turns images into animated posters using JSON.
- WeirdPress — Legacy project (~2022) on Photojournalism & AI.