Designing for the entire system that will eventually be built — have a big picture in mind when design.
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When You Come Across a Book That’s Not Worth Reading…
I wish I could get my hour back… but I can’t.
Continue readingBook Notes: Nickels and Dimes
I just finished this book written by Barbara Ehrenreich. It was about her research project how what lives were like for low wage workers in the US. I appreciate her observations and evaluations, and I think many of her evaluations are still valid even in 2015. I found how to improve people living on minimum wage is a practically complicated issue, it’s not as simple as raising minimum wage and force rent to be lower (which could potentially crash the economy), and I’m not even knowledgeable to make valid comments on it, but I believe this has to be addressed. So I’d like to share her book with you, to provoke thoughts and spark new ideas. Discussions are welcomed.
Continue readingBook Notes: Articulating Design Decisions — How to Become a Great Designer
Today, I wrapped up last bit of the great book “Articulate Design Decisions“, written by Tom Greever . It’s a great guidebook for designers, leading them to become great. Highly recommend it to any designer. It will help you push yourself to the next level.
I doodled and took notes as I read this book, read more in my article.
Continue readingBook Notes: How Pictures Work
Have you every struggled to tell a story effectively using pictures?
Think about the picture books we read when we were kids: how those vivid pictures got us involved, making us laugh or cry together with the characters. How do they make the stories so powerful?
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.