coleman yee on design thinking, education, and everything else
If you re a UX researcher conducting user interviews, you ll probably face this issue: you want to take a video or sound recording of the interview (or some other user research activity) so you to get permission from the interviewee. But when you ask for permission, there s always a chance that the interviewee will say no. You [ ]
Dear UI/UX designer, I’m tired of seeing these mistakes over and over again coming out from UI/UX designers I’ve worked with. Some are exceptionally talented, producing beautiful web or app designs consistently, but almost all of them commit at least a few of these sins. If you ever work with me, I will make sure you have this list burned indelibly into [ ]
If you want to know how to come up with user interview questions for UX (user experience) research, check out this link: 5 Steps to Create Good User Interview Questions By @Metacole — A Comprehensive Guide The article was written by Yu Sheng, a talented UX designer working at ReferralCandy; you might have noticed that he mentioned [ ]
Much has happened in my working life this past year, despite my lack of updates here. A key event was when I left Digital Boomerang. I’d been there for 4 and a half years, and it was one incredible journey of growth for me. It pushed me to my limits, beyond my limits, and expanded [ ]
I ve been busier than ever since joining my current company 3 and a half years ago (which might help to explain my dismal average of less than posts per year on this in the past 2 years), and one of the things I ve been learning more recently is in the area of leadership. Leadership is not [ ]
(Update: the link is outdated, so I ve pasted the whole article below.) I wrote an article recently with the same title, Have you Googled your Name Lately? Here s a snippet: The last time I tried, Google spat out a frightening array of information about me, including blog posts by me, videos of me, events I [ ]
We were having a brainstorm at a client s meeting room when when someone made the classic mistake of writing on the whiteboard with a permanent marker. That wouldn t have happened if the permanent marker wasn t put at the whiteboard, together with all the other (non-permanent) whiteboard markers. And that wouldn t have happened if the permanent [ ]
The talk I gave during TEDx Singapore 8 months ago is now online! (YouTube link The Princess, the Witch, and the PowerPoint) The talk, entitled The Princess, the Witch, and the PowerPoint is a fairy tale illustrating some bad PowerPoint design practices. It s really a minor revision of the version I gave 3 years [ ]
The amount of food we eat is influenced by many things around us, and we don t even know it. If we use a bigger plate for instance, we ll put more food on the plate (and end up eating more). Or if we were presented with more variety, we ll also end up eating more. Or if [ ]
I gave this presentation for the Mozilla Drumbeat Challenge at Neoteny Singapore Camp 1 about a week ago. The presentation was for this: Category 2. The Ultimate Open Web Presentation We re looking for the ultimate presentation that explains the open web and why it matters. You ve got 5 minutes describe the open web in [ ]