Hmm, yet another book on becoming more creative?
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Event Notes: Design Joyful Experiences
“Not everything that matters can be measured, and not everything that is measured matters.”
Continue readingThree Words to Make Up A Story
Jonathan, our Table Topics Master today at Toastmasters meeting, threw a really fun table topics party for us. He brought a bag of small pieces of paper, each with one word on it. Every table topics speaker picks three words, and use them to make up a story.
Continue readingEveryday UX – An Almost Humanless Eatery
I had a really interesting experience eating in an almost humanless eatery at Eatsa in San Francisco – the only human server there was a cleaning guy.
Continue readingEveryday UX – Health Checkups for Tech Channels
I appreciate when non tech companies provide additional channels to make users lives easier. My advice is that every once in a while, have someone do a health checkup on these channels, to ensure they do what they are supposed to do. That way, it helps the user to achieve what they want and for the companies, these channels will be worth the money.
Continue readingDesign Our Futures
I love the quote from James Dator: “any useful statement about the future should at first appear to be ridiculous”.
Continue readingBuild Trustworthy AI-Empowered Products
Aparna Chennapragada, Director of Google Now, was going to give an talk on building trustworthy AI-empowered products at the event Product That Count. I was definitely in, because our team is striving to build a trustworthy AI product called Fluid XPS.
Continue readingFind Your Drawing Style
It really doesn’t matter what style your drawing is, what matters is if you are keep trying to look for one that can best express yourself — your thoughts, stories.
Continue readingAsian Art Museum in San Francisco
China has such a long history that we have a great deal of museums on our ancient culture and artifacts, and I’ve visited so many. However, I was not aware how other Asian countries evolved at the time China was evolving from dynasty to dynasty. Therefore, the Asian Art Museum exhibition was such a great eye opener for me, and I was so happy to have a landscape view on arts from all these Asian countries.
Continue readingBring Offline Shopping Experience Online
When we shop offline, i.e. in a store, we are free to walk around the aisles and ask store representatives for help. Well, when we shop online, there’s no such luxury to ask them, or touch and feel and even try the products. Think about how to bridge this gap for online shoppers, we should know better about how a shopper shops.
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