I have two Dribbble and four Forrst invites to give away. To get them just follow these steps. Read more…
Ten Dribbble and Forrst Invites Up For Grabs
Mon Dec 26How I became a T-shaped Designer
Sat Dec 24
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, I drew the naked women I saw in my parents' porn and make sure I scribbled in some pubic hair. I liked drawing a lot. I even won a Founder's Day award in high school for my narcissistic self-portrait sketch. I believe my eccentricity and love for drawing set me up for an unconventional path to designerhood. Read more…
Mocku.ps
Sun Dec 04
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. Read more…
I had a beautiful dream this morning
Wed Nov 30It 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. In a few moments it was evening. Suddenly… Read more…
IxDA Singapore Launch
Mon Nov 21IxDA (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. The event followed UX Singapore and IxDA ex-Vice President Steve Baty was there too. Read more…
Curiocity
Mon Nov 21
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. Read more…
plusminusten Private Opening Reception
Fri Nov 11
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. I ended up with "Good design is environmentally-friendly". See the process behind the design of my poster. Read more…
The Last 20 Percent
Sun Oct 23It 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. I am a user interface designer and I have worked with iPhones and Android phones when designing mobile applications for both platforms. I had a Samsung Galaxy S, the best Android phone of its time and an iPhone 4. The Samsung is a really good phone, otherwise it wouldn't be so popular. But it is only an eighty-percent phone. Samsung Read more…
Thank You Steve
Thu Oct 06
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. Steve returned to Apple in the late nineties after Apple bought NeXT, which he founded after resigning from Apple ten years earlier. It was during that time I left high school after being debarred from the O' Levels. Shortly after leaving school I began to look for work. I didn't have a computer then and I've only used Read more…
FruityMart
Fri Sep 16
FruityMart is a new project I'm starting. It is going to be a "fruit shop" of sorts. Am I going to sell apples and oranges? What exactly am I doing? Is this a joke? Adam and Eve were made dumb so they ate apples and it made them smarter. FruityMart will have all kinds of fruits to make you smart and competent. If you want to know more, head on to FruityMart.com and sign up for email updates. I will be revealing more information as I build it. Read more…
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 but keep noticing the flaws and imperfections of the 44-pixel rhythm. Read more…
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. One can furnish a room very luxuriously by taking out furniture rather than putting it in. Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect. IP and lines of code are liabilities, not assets. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Simplicity is complexity solved. Less is more. All the phrases above, which I had gathered on Quora, suggest a reductionist approach to design. It seems to me most people who subscribe to the minimalistic mindset don't have a clue what simplicity really is. Read more…
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. Read more…
Leaving Found
Tue Jul 12I 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. The Found team have plans to be in San Francisco for a good three months from August. With new responsibilities as a new parent I have made the decision to not join the team in the States. For the past year I have been responsible for instilling in the team an emphasis for good design as both director and producer. The product has reached a reasonably mature state Read more…
Engineering, Design and Good Taste
Tue Jul 12Engineering creates a product's body. Design makes it healthy and beautiful. Taste is what gives it a soul. Read more…
MobileWeaver ApS
Wed Jun 08
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. The website which markets MobileWeaver's products was redesigned into a single easy-to-understand, coherent page. Gone are the long-winded paragraphs. The communication is now highly-focused on the key value propositions for both developers and carrier customers. Read more…
Two Dribbble invites to give away
Sat Jun 04I'm giving away two invites to Dribbble. I will select two designers and if you have been wanting to get into Dribbble this is your chance. Here's what you need to do: Read more…
White iPhone 4 Simulator
Thu Jun 02
I recently got myself a white iPhone 4. I was using a white iPhone 3G which I lost and after that a spare first-gen iPhone from a friend before this. I have such a profound propensity for white gadgets I cannot help but made modifications to the iOS Simulator so it shows a white iPhone. Read more…
New Found app goes beta
Wed Jun 01Foound – where i work as design honcho has undergone some extensive changes and will soon be relaunching this summer as a totally new service and dropping a "o" from its name. It started as an app for organizing meet-ups and it has evolved into something new but with the same goals. Read more…
