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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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Things I Built 2025
The 2025 survey by Lenny Rachitsky is full of fascinating insights—but one thing stood out to me: designers remain the least represented group in AI adoption. While PMs are using AI to automate documentation, and developers rely on it to speed up coding, designers’ use of AI still feels… ambiguous. I've joked about losing my job to AI for a while. But honestly? The real question is: how do we co-exist and leverage AI for design and how would the paradigm shift in product world? Each project I b
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2024 Wrapped
Kicking off the new year with a review! For the first time, I'm posting my annual review right on Jan 1st. This tradition, which I started way back in 2019, marks its fifth year - we're halfway through to a decade of annual reflections! Friends of Figma Hong Kong had its biggest year yet, with our events bringing together more designers in Hong Kong than ever before. Thanks again to my amazing fellow moderators (Michelle, Arthur and Joey), we have organised 4 all in-person events with record-br
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2023 Life Review
Welcome to 2024! As I embark on this new year, I find it important to take a moment to reflect on the past and the things that have brought me joy and fulfillment. In 2023, I made a conscious effort to prioritize my health and physical activity. I started going to the gym at first but settled to learning tennis instead. In terms of my career, I have accomplished a few notable things. I successfully completed IDEO U's certificate on Human-centered design and Activating Strategy. Additionally, I
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2022 In Review & Life Update
As we bid farewell to the tumultuous year of 2022, it was a rollercoaster ride of both planned and unanticipated events. Amidst the ups and downs, I've set some goals for myself that I hope to achieve in the coming year. A exciting surprise for me this year was being a part of the Friends of Figma, Hong Kong community, where I got to meet new designers, friends and even future colleague! I set out the goal from last year without knowing how exactly to contribute more time to the design community
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Best of 2022
Finally settling down for year review. Here're my best apps, products and films in 2022! Switching to Arc from Firefox in 2022 is the most delightful experience I've onboard. It has done a lot of rights as a new browser. Challenged existing browsers' mental modal with Profiles & Spaces. While Profiles handle our online identity (who are we browsing as), Spaces take care of our use case (what websites are we browsing together). It was steep learning curve that I took me awhile to understand and g
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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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Reflecting on 2020
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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