2020‘s Thoughts
✦ June
Things I wish I knew when I started designing
5 years in the design field is not too long. But it gives me many lessons that if I knew about it before, it will be a better designer than I am today.
Atomic Essays
Opinionated, short-form narrative writing.
2020‘s Thoughts
✦ June
Get a job as a product designer whithout going to design school
I got my job as a designer without going to design school. This is a guide to teach yourself design.
2020‘s Thoughts
✦ May
Generalist vs Specialist
When you hire a person to solve a problem. Do you want to hire a person who knows many things or a person who great dept in one thing?
2020‘s Thoughts
✦ March
Designer’s guide for designing for performance
Performance is a shared responsibility and everyone on your team impacts it. Considering performance when making design decisions will have an enormous impact on your users.
2020‘s Thoughts
✦ March
The function of beauty
We got so carried away with the idea of functionality, we lost sight of who we were designing for in the first place, humans
2020‘s Thoughts
✦ February
Keep a hero file and steal like an artist
How to find your own design style at the early stage of your design career.
2020‘s Thoughts
✦ January
Best chapters and lessons from “Sapien, a brief history of humankind” by Yuval Noah Harari
A look at the history of humankind from a very new perspective, and surprised.
2020‘s Thoughts
✦ January
Lessons from the movie “Schindler’s List” by Steven Spielberg
Everything I learned I learned from the movies.
2020‘s Thoughts
✦ January
In a digital world, don’t forget to use your digits
Don’t let cool digital tools and the noisy world bury your creativity.
2020‘s Thoughts
✦ January
The secret of writing
What’s the primary purpose of your headline, your graphic, your font, and any other part of the writing?
2019‘s Thoughts
✦ December
2019 Year in review
End of a decade, the 2010s, the new one is coming, 2020s. What had passed last year?
2019‘s Thoughts
✦ December
How I built a new website in 2 weeks with GatsbyJS
We always want to make something better. And that’s why I built this new website.
2019‘s 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‘s Thoughts
✦ December
Jakob’s law
One of the most basic and common principles of UX
2019‘s 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‘s 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?
