ViKi Apps
Near the end of last year after the Series B funding ViKi engaged me as a product designer to update their iPhone app. After the iPhone I went on to help them design the iPad app as well as the Android phone and tablet apps.
Overthinking
Conjuring complex mathematical equations may make you look smart but to become truly creative you need to be able to liberate your mind from the the shell of knowledge, education and adultification you have accumulated.
Creative Mixer
I'm presenting at Creative Mixer tonight and will be talking a little something about Claude Monet and metaphysics. Why don't you come?
Pinterest Rip Off?
Andreas Pihlström a.k.a. Suprb whom I deeply respect had been recently accused of ripping off Pinterest by Sarah Kessler and Brian Anthony Hernandez of Mashable. Here's his response.
An Origami Guide to San Francisco
I just came across this idea of a beautiful origami-like San Francisco travel guide that folds magically to the size of a credit card. I've only been to San Francisco once but I love the city and really want to visit it again some day.
How I became a T-shaped Designer
I've always been the eccentric kid. Most adults thought I was disturbing. While most kids were drawing pictures of cats and dogs I drew a cockroach with really long stilts-like legs. While most children were drawing pictures of mom and dad…
Mocku.ps
Mocku.ps is a tool I created over the past two weeks that allows you to easily set up and show your interface design mockups (e.g. web, mobile) from a nice shortened URL that shows how a design would look like in the browser.
I had a beautiful dream this morning
It was a strangely hazy late afternoon. The sky had become a misty yellow like a faded post-it note. I went out, took the lift to the ground floor and walked past familiar parts of my block to an unfamiliarly open area where I can see the sky in its entirety…
IxDA Singapore Launch
IxDA (Interaction Design Association) Singapore launched last Friday evening and I was invited to speak at the event about emerging interaction design trends. The crowd was great and I think almost all who have RSVP'd showed up.
Curiocity
The site I was working on earlier this weekend is now up. View it at http://curioucity.me/. It's a mobile app landing page for a Japanese game developer. I think I managed to get out of my typographical comfort zone and I really like how it turned out.
plusminusten Private Opening Reception
The plusminusten private opening reception took place last night and finally I saw my entry printed and on display at The Gallery (Old School). Ten designers in Singapore were invited to design a poster for each of Dieter Ram's ten good design commandments.
The Last 20 Percent
It is what separates the exceptional from the good. Many are content with being good and stop there. Only a few actually go beyond good. And fewer actually believe and get it.
Thank You Steve
The world lost a genius today. He played a big part in changing it for the better. I want to celebrate him for the work he has done and most importantly for how he had played an important role in shaping my life.
New Visual Proportions for the iOS User Interface
Since I have begun designing iPhone app interfaces last year, I have been deeply in touch with the nuances of the interfaces of native and non-native apps. As a designer who is also adept in print design and has an acute typographical sense, I cannot help…
Design is adjustment. Reduction is adjustment. So is addition.
Stopping in the middle at complexity is an obvious problem. Reducing and not adding enough before reaching complexity is a less obvious but bigger problem. Both over-design and under-design are mal-design when relative to enough design.
On Mobile UX Workflows at the next IXD Sessions
IXD Sessions are a series of talks with a focus on Interaction Design. This is an initiative run by people who are eager to learn more about designing and creating better products.
Hello browsers, this is how clearing history should be done
The omnibar on my Google Chrome browser was getting really slow. As I type into it, each character takes up to a second to appear. A quick google revealed that it is caused by an overloaded history. I haven't cleared my history for a long time. It makes sense.
Leaving Found
I will be taking a semi-sabbatical from Found starting August. Its purpose will be both professional and spiritual and will last at least three months.
Engineering, Design and Good Taste
Engineering creates a product's body. Design makes it healthy and beautiful. Taste is what gives it a soul.
MobileWeaver ApS
MobileWeaver is a white-label mobile app store solution provider based in Copenhagen. It is a symbiotic ecosystem of carriers and app developers across multiple non-iOS mobile platforms.