As a designer, I’ve been capturing others’ good design patterns and interactions to get inspired. Here are some tools I’ve been using on Mac.
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My Journey of English Learning
A friend was doing research on struggles of learning new languages when going to a new country. Yanbin and I were perfect candidates because both of us are not native English speakers but came to the US to stay. We reviewed a few critical moments that had the greatest impacts for improving our English.
Continue readingLet’s Zen with Zentangles!
A Zentangle is an image that’s formed by simple repeated patterns. You don’t have to be an artist to draw Zentangles, all you need is knowing how to draw a line, a square, a circle, triangle and some other simple shapes. Next, you combine them together to form some other new lines and shapes. It is truly an “everyone art”.
Continue readingGoogle and Me
Google has become my go-to search engine a long time ago. One of the best qualities I admire Google is its openness.
Continue readingMindsets for Solving Problems with Creativity
When it comes to trying to solve problems with creativity, it’s very important to keep the right mindset — how you think will have direct impacts on whether you will arrive at innovative and impactful solutions.
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Chatbots and Conversation-Based Interface
Chat bots apparently have become the new hype and so is the conversation-based interface (think send a Facebook Messenger).
Here are my learnings from a meetup hosted by Products That Count and Venture Capitalist Tim Chang to get a general idea about this trend.
Continue readingMIT’s Latest 3D Printed Robot — Born to Walk
Learned from FastCo.Exist about MIT’s latest 3D printed robot. If you give it a battery and motor, it’ll be able to walk right away. It can even be controlled by a smart phone. It’s remarkable because this robot has solid (hard & soft) and liquid parts, and all of those were printed as a whole in the 3D printing process.
Continue readingTiming in Martial Arts
Timing is crucial.
Continue readingPredict Games of Thrones
A group of students from the Technical University of Munich has developed a project “A Song of Ice and Data”, trying to predict who are likely to die in the upcoming season 6 of Games of Thrones.
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