Chief Doodle Officer (Ex-Meta,Shopify, Tesla) Currently @ Microsoft Pattern finder trying to stay in a creative state-of-mind.
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Breaking the cycle. It's the subject I care a lot about these days. I've been around long enough professionally (and f**ked up enough times) to probably give some good advice. Especially if you're 1st gen Asian American, in UX, are introverted. HMU maybe I can help.
One of my favorite Steve Jobs sayings is the one where he discusses with engineers the layout and design of the circuit boards inside of the machine.
“Nobody will ever know,” Steve said. But you will know."
To this day, no other Steve Jobs quote has stuck as much as this one.
Nothing like an in-person event to bring a team together.
I met my team for the first time in person where we shared stories, joked, and really gelled as a team. I can't wait for the next one!
Oh, and the cherry on the top–my team won the hackathon 🏆 (my first ever!)
Stumbled upon this site while looking for superscripts to use in Slack. (Maybe this should be a feature in Slack especially useful for long form writing)
symbl.cc/en/
This is big.
1. @FTC has taken action against Adobe and two executives for pushing people into subscriptions and then making it absurdly hard to cancel.
Adobe ambushed users with hefty "early termination fees" and threw up obstacles when people tried to cancel.
ftc.gov/news-events/news/pre…
Need focus mode in Figma, where multi-player is turned off.
Nothing induces more anxiety than having a freelance client hovering in Figma as you're designing (and in the zone). Instant buzz-kill.
#productdesign #ux #figma
I have a personal no-disruption policy and would absolutely mute the F out of every channel channel not important to me.
Also hope the policy teaches ppl about written communication on Slack.
Got a question for anyone whose created online lessons. What was your setup? Especially if you shot w/ iPhone, please DM me! I'm curious your end-to-end!
Always be weary of working with someone who has not once apologized for a mistake, even a silly one. Takes someone with great clarity, openness, and a growth mindset. Doing so fosters trust, engenders transperency, and better collaboration.
The craftsmanship of great design feels like a footnote these days. Having great taste is massively undervalued, despite CEO's like Karri and Patrick, openly and repeatedly saying great design had to play a part in the success of their companies.
Patrick is articulating something here I always wondered: why do something if you don’t do it well.
I remember going to the store with my parents to buy my first bike. I’d have been generally happy with any of bikes but also felt most of the bikes were just ugly. The functionality was more or less the same but some details and the paint job was bad. I remember thinking then: if you go through all the work of making the bicycle, why do you make it ugly. It shouldn’t cost more since amount of material you use is the same.
Later I realized that most people just don’t care. You need someone in the business to care in order to make something good.
The other day my 5yo son asked me to "gugu" what are clouds made of.
Instead of "guguing" it, I said from now on we're gonna @perplexity_ai it. Kind of a mouthful and not the cutest nor memorable.
What would you call PerplexityAI if you were a 5yo?
I'm thorougly enjoying the fact that after 2 decades+ of gugu dominance, there is a new player in town and no longer the default. The same goes for the browser itself, I no longer use it on a daily basis – @arcinternet is my default.