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Articles I’ve written about design, technology and productivity.
Lessons learned from my personal project
Getting Started. There is no better time to start your personal project than today. I have been living in the bubble of agency model for years taking…
desktopofsamuel.com October Update
It was a challenging yet rewarding period in the last two months. I have set up the bare-bones structure of my personal site, yet it was a long way…
Practical Tips on Evernote
TLDR: Practical Evernote tips that help you to build your own knowledge base and get things done (GTD) I have been a long-time user of Evernote but I…
Let's Talk About Apps
Lessons from IKEA
My journey to Scandinavia continued in Älmhult, Sweden (2 hours of train ride from Copenhagen), after the Design Matters conference. It was the home…
Journey to Design Matters
It was a truly enlightening trip to Denmark, attending Design Matters 2018 in Copenhagen (Sep 26 -27, 2018). Not only did the talks and workshops…
Building Gatsby With Multiple Post Type
2018/10/25: Updated the post on how to create Category and Tag page for multiple post type. TLDR: I'm sharing my way of setting up multiple post types…
Why designers need a personal website?
TLDR: I'm summing up the reasons why a designer should build a custom site using Gatsby.JS. One of my year resolution for 2018 is to learn front-end…
Do Subscription Models Work with Apps?
Thoughts on Setapp — subscription-based collection for Mac apps Mac apps are great. They are beautifully designed, crafted with a bunch of handy…
Essential Color Tools to Step Up Your Design Game
Color is the combination of science and art, a simple color change could have drastic effect on the emotion or perception of the viewer. Being a UI/UX…
How to do localization right - Citymapper in Hong Kong
After switching to Android last year, Google Map has been my first choice of transit app. Living in a city that public transport operators discourage…
Why real data & content matter
We have a lot of assumptions in the process of creating wireframes and mockups for websites & apps. As wireframes & mock-ups are not dynamic, it is…