Category: inspiration

User Experience (UX) is hard. I mean like hard, very hard. Empathy is the core of UX, which is the ability to carefully listen and observe the problem designers try to solve. Listening, in this situation, can’t be simply understood as what you do with your ears, but you need to critically listen by engaging…

Money talks. Let’s get straight to business: How do we design a stock exchange system that speaks to finance bros as much as Patagonia speaks their soul? stock exchange system design anh’s note from reading How to build a stock trading platform like a pro? by Ronas IT. S&P 500 Overview: Trends in Financial Sector:…

I worked for a restaurant through my agency, for the last 4 month. I must say designing for them is another whole beast, like working for neither a creative minds nor professional communicator (but bro having free food perks from them was so epic). My question today is: How do we visually showcase the taste…

I’m a graphic designer, but I love journalism, especially its adaptation to the internet landscape past few decades. I know newspaper target audience is mostly “serious” business and adults. But anyone needs a good source of information. Kids don’t read these day, so: How can you provide information while still make it interesting to consume…

I first found out about the National Student Show and Conference (NSSC) by the Dallas Society of Visual Communication last year. I basically love everything about the nature and mission of the conference: “inspiring graphic arts students from across the U.S., enhancing their design education, and preparing them for the real world.” As a graphic…

I first found out about this website in my freshman year, doing Herb Lubablin. It was the coolest thing ever. And this is a quick case study of it. Lubalin 100 is a website created by the Herb Lubalin Study Center and Readymag. The website is in a format of a 100-day calendar celebrating Herb…

Let’s get to it! (still design-focused) Very famous guest: Webflow Webflow is a cloud-based SaaS design tool and content management system (CMS) that allows you to create websites without coding. It is ideal for blogs, eCommerce stores, microsites, portfolios, event sites, landing pages, and corporate websites. strengths weaknesses takeaway Worth It: Robust features make Webflow an…

Continuing on our “business in web design” series, today our special guest is framer. I was recommended to this website builder by a product designer fellow from Bostom. He argued that this is better than Webflow with a competitive pricing, and being used by cool agencies. Since I focused on the business operation last time,…

One of Milton Glaser’s most well-known work is a poster with a headline of “Art is whatever”. The reason I use my drawing talent to pursue graphic design is because I don’t get art (I later found out at TCU that art indeed doesn’t have a specific purpose). Yet, graphic design is different, which is…

anh’s note from reading The History of Website Design: 30 Years of Building the Web by Ryan Shelley and The history of web design by Canva: For any new, interesting design topics I encounter, I always find doing a brief history deep dive helpful. To me, history is quite similar to physics, which is easier…