Have you ever notice there is a “star” inside every apple? I was surprised to learn this amazing fact. If we take time to explore ourselves more, we can find the great potential inside us too!
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It’s time for family re-union, visiting friends and eating moon cakes!
Book Notes: The Fred Factor
Indeed, everyone can be a Fred. If we live with a very positive manner, genuine to others, proud of ourselves and our work, then we can have the drive to add value to our work and lives, and this can cause a ripple-effect in the lives of people that we come into contact.
Continue readingBook Notes: REWORK
I think this is a great book to help a start-up-size company to be more creative, efficient and productive. I like the positive attitude towards product and services throughout the book – keep products simple and be speedy and genuine in business. A big portion of the book are pages of illustrations, some of them are really cute ~ They match the book style really well. Of course, although this book is great, it’s not perfect. This is a book that works for 37Signals (or maybe similar start-up style companies) but not every company. Some chapters have weak substances and so the theories look somewhat empty; And there’s a little arrogant in tone when they talk about ignoring customer’s advice or the conventional wisdom. I would say, well, this is just a collection of experience and advice from a particular company, and as always, we need to wisely filter what we learn.
Creativity! – iPad & iPod Magic
There are always something that impresses me and makes me moved, especially when it’s full of imagination and creativity. In the two videos below, you can see how amazing when creativity flows.
Continue readingWeb Font Units: pt, px, em, %
Font selection is an important part of web design and development. The designer does not only need to pick a beautiful font that matches the design style, but also wants this font in the real website to be rendered as close as possible to her design. We have four choices for font size unit when it comes to CSS font-size – pt (point), px (pixel), em and percent. Knowing when to use the proper unit is essential for your web page rendering. If you are not careful enough about the font size unit, you web pages may end up great in some browsers, ugly in some others, and broken in rest of browsers.
Continue readingNir Eyal: Behavior Design
Nir talks about behavior design in this excellent video. He gives a nice intro to this concept and several great examples about how companies (e.g. Facebook, Pinterest, Zynga) change user habits, and what every designer should know about creating products that users love. I strongly recommend this video if you are a product owner, product manager, UI designer or UX designer like me.
Continue readingSign up for a Website: Password Field One vs. Two
My friend showed me 2 websites sign-up pages that have one single password entry. This was my first time to see a sign-up process without re-entering password. Did some comparison with 2-password sign-up process, and it’s hard to tell right or wrong without data. Designers may have different reasons why they design something as it is, but designers are not end users. So this is when we need to have some user tests.
Continue readingHow IT Projects Really Work by Project Cartoon
I came across this awesome image quite a while ago. Most of times, people describe how projects work in words, and what I can get is just a rough impression. This image, however, just uses such a simple example and explains all!
Continue readingDo, or do not. There is no “try”.
Do, or do not. There is no “try” if you want to get things done.
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