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2025 Wrapped
Reflecting on 2025, there's steady progress in the places that mattered: career transition, community, and staying physically active. Here's what I did, what I'm proud of, and what I'm taking into next year. After leaving OKX at the end of last year, I took a month-long break. I attended World Cafe on Career Break, which gave me a lot of insight into what a break could really mean. During that period, I traveled, read, went on random adventures with my camera, and did quite a lot of journaling,
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How Might We - Summer Blues
Hi Friends, Thank you for those who joined “Do You Know Design Systems” early this month. It’s been a privilege to organise and host in-person event for the community. The night was enlightening covering all about design system. I have also added the deck as a resource below if you missed the event. This month the biggest news in the design community probably was Adobe will be acquiring Figma. Even though everyone worried about Figma’s future, and Figma claimed to be autonomous and there’s isn’t
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How Might We - Life Update
Hello friends, So here it goes, I started a new role as a product designer this month in a crypto company. Before starting a new role, I’m so grateful that I am able to take some time off, spent with family and friends. Never underestimate the power of a break, it helps you to reset, reflect and avoid career burnout in longer run. Having a break between 2 jobs are the best because the old company does not require your attentions anymore while you have not started in the new one, It’s just perfe
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Design Talks 2022
Design talks are hidden gems for designers to quickly learn from other teams' successes and failures! No matter you are a beginner in UX or currently in the field, check out these recent design talks that I really enjoyed watching and found them greatly related to my everyday’s work. Yuan Qing from Shopify shared his observations and analysis on UX design in China. His sharing is particularly useful in places like Hong Kong, where bilingual design (Chinese and English) is ubiquitous. He analyse
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How Might We - Building Design Community in Hong Kong
Hello JUXT friends, It’s been a while and I want to share what kept me so busy over the past few months. As mentioned in my previous issue, I have become a community moderator for Friends of Figma, Hong Kong and I have shifted my focus in running the community instead of contributing content to JUXT Design, which is a great thing as one of my key objectives was to involve in the design community in Hong Kong. We are now active on Discord with 200+ members now after 2 months! We have already orga
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How Might We - Building Design Community in Hong Kong
Hello JUXT friends, It’s the end of the Q1 of 2022. Hope you have reserve some time to reflect on your progress so far. I treasure my blocked hour that I will spend on writing my own reflection. This month, I have joined Friends of Figma, Hong Kong as one of the community moderator, we organized our first kick-off event this month and it’s so great to meet new friends and contribute to the design community. Between blog, digital garden and my resources bookmarks, I found it took quite a lot of t
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2021 and more...
Sorry for the delay, probably this will be the LAST year review you will ever read this year, which arrives right before the first quarter has ended. Reflecting on 2021, there’s steady progress on personal and career development. I completed 9 books this year (↑3 comparing to 2020) yet I still failed to meet 12 books' target. One book I really enjoyed is Project Hail Mary, written by Andy Weir. Continuing after the success of The Martian, Project Hail Mary is a fascinating interstellar journey t
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How Might We - Gatsby Starter Obsidian Garden
Hello JUXT friends, It’s a short month in February but it was quite productive for me. This month, I moved to explore the world of Tailwind CSS. Utility-first approach of Tailwind is quite interesting after trying out different styling solutions. I had also applied my learning immediately to my latest project. I had the idea last year to convert part of the website into digital garden and I finally did it! There’s a sidebar in the Guides with a list of my quick note. Most of the code I re-used f
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How Might We
Hello JUXT friends, Welcome to the first issue of How Might We! Here I will be sharing more behind the scene & reflection while working on JUXT Design. First month of 2022, I have been busy learning and working on JUXT Design’s new website. I finished a NextJS course last month, which has finally encouraged me to experiment it with one of my website. It’s way faster, less opinionated yet more development effort for hobbyist like me. I have also made new plans for JUXT Design this year, new conte
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Navigating Design Career with Design OKRs
Finding the right path in your design career can be difficult. When you don't realize the goals or don't know if you are making progress every day. OKRs (Objectives & Key Results) is a goal framework adopted by companies like Google to define and track goals. Instead of using it for company goals and business objectives, I'm using the same methodology for personal career planning, Here're my experience and reflection practicing Design OKRs for the last 8 months. Currently working as a UI/UX cons
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Reflecting on 2020
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Documentaries watched, 2020 Apr — Jun Edition
{/* import Film from "components/Film"; import WorkplacePoster from "./workplace.png"; import CubaAndTheCameramanPoster from "./cubaandthecameraman.jpg"; import UrbanisedPoster from "./urbanised.jpg"; import BambooTheatrePoster from "./bambootheatre.jpg"; import ThirdteenthPoster from "./13th.jpg" */} {//} I have almost forgot, architecture, from physical, monumental structure to the details of space, is still an integral part of design discipline. The film went through history to see the evolu
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Documentaries watched, 2020 Jan — Mar Edition
{/* import Film from "@/components/Film"; import HelveticaPoster from "/static/helvetica-poster.jpeg"; import FreeSoloPoster2 from "/static/freesolo-poster.jpg"; import RamsPoster from "/static/rams-poster.png"; import ObjectifiedPoster from "/static/objectified-poster.jpg"; import AmericanFactoryPoster from "/static/amercian-factory-poster.jpg" */} One of my year resolution over the last couple of years was to watch more documentaries. Why? Documentaries are fun and informative, it’s a standard
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How to Organise Design Workflow and Operation in Figma
Most people kickstart their project with a blank artboard or template. It is the obvious way to get started. However, user-interface designs tend to be more complicated than just a few pages. How should we approach to organise our screens, when there are 10+, 100+, or even 1000+ screens? And does the file structure cope with the development workflow? Here's my struggles & takeaways in organizing Figma. I work at a travel-tech startup right now, and we work on App and Website. Being the principal
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2019 Wrapped
And a year has passed. 2019 has been quite a journey for me. I have switched to become a full-time in-house product and UI/UX designer. The depth of work and design process that I delivered was totally different. The city that I’m living in, Hong Kong, also faced tremendous suppression in the fight for justice and democracy. I’m grateful for what I have learned and become over the past year, and I hope that I can continue to reflect my journey. This is my second year anniversary of my website w
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Thanks to Figma Plugins, Automated Work Spares More Time For Design
It’s been a while since beta but Figma Plugins is finally here. While Sketch is catching up with their cloud capabilities, Figma has also been working on proper third party support. Figma has become my main design tool over the past year. I have been using it for interface and website design on a daily basis. Our social media and marketing assets are also created in Figma for easy collaboration and bilingual support. (I’m writing another piece to elaborate our process, stay tuned.) After a few w
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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 given by design practitioners across the industry are illuminating, but it had also made me realized to take a step back to reflect on the whole workflow of design process. One of the recurring theme during this year conference is the re-discovery of emotional design. Few speakers’ keynotes coincidentally brought up the importance of expressive design,
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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 designer, mastering the color theory and its application truly can step up your design game. Stephen Few’s “Tapping the Power of Visual Perception” coined the term “Preattentive Attributes” in displaying data. Intensity and hue of color are two attributes that can enhance visual communication quickly. Leveraging color help users to process inform
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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 open data, transit app is for navigation most of the time. Although selected lines of MTR and bus operators have their app to share real-time next train / bus data, yet they refuse to share them with an open API, welcoming third-party apps integration like Google Map or Citymapper. I downloaded Citymapper (iOS and Android, Free) again yesterday whe
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Design with Data — Why should you design with real content?
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 easy to aware various scenarios when dummy content or placeholders are used. In contrast to graphic design or typesetting, which you build on certain materials delivered by the client. Website & app is on the other side of the track, it’s like working on a blank canvas at the beginning. Stakeholders like clients & users have some rough ideas but ther