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Event Notes: Jobs-to-Be-Done Framework

posted in All, Creativity • Products • Designs on 03/15/2019 by yingying 0 Comments

Sketchnotes and thoughts from a talk on JTBD framework.

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Event Notes: Design with AI

posted in All, Artificial Intelligence, Creativity • Products • Designs on 03/07/2019 by yingying 0 Comments

In the event Design User Experience Driven by AI, Paul Lambert (Product Manager) and Annika Crowley (Interaction Designer) from Google gave us great talks on how Gmail designed the Smart Compose feature, and five strategies to create great user experience with AI (see sketchnotes).

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posted in All, Designing & Making, Quotes, Tech on 03/05/2019 by yingying

When prototyping, always try wackier/quirkier stuff first. The deeper you get into a project, the more conservative it tends to get. Stranger ideas are more at home earlier in the process. Jason Fried

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Celebrate Lunar New Year – Chinese Zodiacs Papercutting!

posted in All, Creative Projects, Culture Talks on 01/31/2019 by yingying 0 Comments

This is the third year in a row that I hosted a craft event in my company, in celebration of the Lunar New Year. We had such a fun time!

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Book Notes: It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work

posted in All, Books on 01/28/2019 by yingying 0 Comments

Quick thoughts about the book. First book sketchnotes I’ve ever done.

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Get Compliant with ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act)

posted in All, Designing & Making, Presentations, Tech on 12/02/2018 by yingying 0 Comments

Here’s a presentation I gave to my coworkers in a brown bag session. It’s a while ago, but still holds true. My goal was to help all of us better understand accessibility, its impact for users as well as how we could better build our software for users who have disabilities.

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Event Notes: Don’t Start with Data

posted in All, Designing & Making on 09/07/2018 by yingying 0 Comments

Behzod shared a 4-step research framework on how to decide on what/how to research: DECISION -> EVIDENCE -> DATA -> APPROACH.

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Modified Delphi Card Sorting

posted in All, Designing & Making, Utilities & Tools on 09/06/2018 by yingying 0 Comments

Out of all the different types of card sorting I’ve learned, this modified Delphi card sorting method is the most interesting one.

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Visualize Ideas, Even If They Could Be “Bad”

posted in All, Designing & Making on 08/27/2018 by yingying 0 Comments

As designers, our intuition and judgement take a big part when it comes to evaluating our own design ideas.

Sometimes, I kill ideas when they’re still in my head.

The problem with that is several fold.

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Be Your Own Creative Director

posted in All, Creativity • Products • Designs, Designing & Making on 08/21/2018 by yingying 0 Comments

How to expand your design explorations? How not to explore just “safe” design options?

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