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Rethinking Searching for Rent
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in LiveListening to the search experience talk immediately made me think about my own moving-from-Philippines-to-Singapore experience. I learned that we are information seeking creatures, and there are search-situations where we find things to make a decision (or decisions). In this case: I needed to find a room to rent.
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Notes from IxD session: Designing the Search Experience
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in DesignIxD Meetup: Designing the Search Experience Talk by Maish Nichani from PebbleRoad
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Branding workshop with Orange Hive
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in DesignI attended a branding workshop today. Which might be weird because I should’ve learned about it in college, having graduated from a design course. But the workshop made me realize how outdated my course a few years back was because this time we didn’t just dive into type and colors and logos, trying to find…
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Full screen web pages (or modals) on iOS Safari
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in WorkBecause the top and bottom bars on iOS Safari slides up and down when scrolling, I was having some difficulty coding a full-screen page for it. $(window).height() on only gets the initial height upon page load, which includes the full header and footer bars. $(window).resize() wasn’t triggering when I scroll, either. I ended up finding…
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Jack of all trades
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in PonderBy the time I graduated 3 years ago, I’ve already had an idea of what I wanted to be: a designer who could build stuff. This was my main motivation in learning how to design and code (not only javascript, but also to be able to build stuff from ground up, like Rails, so I…
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Patterns: what I learned from watching COSMOS and Captain America
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in DesignThis week has been a great week for shows and movies. First, C shared with me COSMOS Episode 3. Second, I watched Captain America: The Winter Soldier with folks from work. Both of which were great shows from which I got a few things about design patterns. A few hours ago, I just watched Captain…
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How switching to pocket wifi changed my workflow
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in TinkerMy Old Plan My two-year contract with SMART was a mix of good and bad. Bad because my iPhone 4S broke a month after the 1-year warranty (CRY!!!) but good because my experience of their services has been smooth all throughout. I’m sure there are horror stories out there, but I guess I’m lucky enough…
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DFA Megamall Service Design Suggestions
Banking, transferring or withdrawing money, government agencies such as visa’s, passports, driver’s licenses, among other things are all examples of ‘services’. The experiences we have from these services, whether we’re happy after a transaction or not, is an effect of how much ‘design’ is part of the process. Sometimes it may be designed well, often…
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UXHK 2014 notes: Storytelling – Interaction Design as the Language of Story
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in DesignWorkshop by: Dave Malouf, @daveixd If your story doesn’t engage, then you are probably failing at design. people = personas location = context props = interfaces activities = tasks dialog = flow/sequence experience – how we FEEL how to get things done engage emotional connection with voice/tone Tales with: purpose, meaning, value design to…