Thought Garden
Welcome to my thought garden. A public notebook. A space to learn in public. A place to share my perspectives on design, coding, tech, mindset, and parenting.
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2019 Thoughts
✦ December
Is Figma really good? Thoughts from a Sketch designer who tries Figma
There is a trend now on design, switching from Sketch to Figma. But is Figma that good?
2019 Thoughts
✦ December
Jakob’s law
One of the most basic and common principles of UX
2019 Thoughts
✦ November
Our Europe Trip 2019 — Whole journey review
The review for our whole journey, where is our favorite, where has the best food, where we will come back?
2019 Thoughts
✦ November
Our Europe trip 2019 — Back home
We’re playing back to Singapore, it’s a long flight, 12 hours. Long long long flight.
2019 Thoughts
✦ November
Our Europe trip 2019 — Paris
There are so many things to see and do there.
2019 Thoughts
✦ November
Can’t get good ideas? Come up with some bad ones
It’s your brain trying to protect you from harm, from coming up with ideas that is embarrassing and stupid and could cause you to suffer pain. The way you shut off is by forcing the brain to come up with bad ideas.
2019 Thoughts
✦ November
Our Europe trip 2019 — Bye Belgium
The second country of the journey, we are coming to Paris, France.
2019 Thoughts
✦ November
Our Europe trip 2019 — Germany
German people are awesome
2019 Thoughts
✦ November
The designer’s job is both doing and thinking
What if one day you don’t have anything to deliver? It happens very often on a product team, what would you feel?
2019 Thoughts
✦ October
Imposter syndrome is real
It happens to many people. Many people are facing it too.
2019 Thoughts
✦ September
Ugly truths about design systems
Design system (DS) is not a temporary trend, it has many benefits to the organization and the product. But what else?