“Becoming Steve Jobs” is a great book. As the authors Rick Tetzeli and Brent Schlender say, this is a growth story about Steve Jobs — how he grew from a two-person team to managing a company that has thousands of employees. There are a lot of books and articles depicting him as a complete genius and at the same time, a complete jerk. From this book, I saw his soft side, his care about his employees, friends, as well as his and others’ families.
Continue readingDesigning for the entire system that will eventually be built — have a big picture in mind when design.
Continue readingOne of the most useful purchases I’ve made is a medium-size whiteboard.
Continue readingBad feelings were lingering: how did this all happen? I normally pay much attention in closing loops, how did I miss all these?
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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 readingEvery person can easily have an opinion towards design. A designer, however, should keep in mind that when creating designs, she needs to back them up with logical reasons, and able to explain why she’s made them that way.
Continue readingOn 3/21/2015, I downloaded top 30 free apps from each of the 23 categories (except Games) from iPhone App Store, so that I can experience more of them. I will try each app, go over all the pages and capabilities. Take notes of everything that comes to my mind. I decide to invest my time, I know this will help me do better in design.
There are lots of wonderful talks and meetups around the bay area, especially in SF. As UX Designers, we should go out to get new knowledge, meet other designers, hear, talk about what’s going on in the tech and design/non-design world.
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It was “San Francisco Design Week” last week (06/16/2014 – 06/20/2014). I went to the Twitter Studio Tour, enjoyed a talk from Mike Davidson, Twitter’s VP of Design, and got to talk to a few awesome designers. Here are my take-aways.
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