I took NM4210 User Experience Design last semester, and it’s really been a module that has changed the way I think about design. One of the core lessons I’ve learnt from this class is the segmentation of the broad field of user experience design into four main parts- user research, information architecture, interaction design and [...]
These last few months have been tremendously busy for me, mostly with the workload of school projects and assignments, but it’s been largely enjoyable which is probably why it seems to have passed so quickly. I haven’t neglected writing, although most of my blogging juice has been spent on writing for a blog for one [...]
[Note: This entry was written for the module, CS3216] The video conferencing session with Google Wave’s Pamela Fox truly underlined the excitement of taking this module. To have a core member of the Wave team review our applications and personally share with us the new attractive APIs sweetened the deal of being in this awesome [...]
[Note: This entry was written for the module, CS3216] One of the most common mistakes in any endeavour is doing more than necessary. This doesn’t sound particularly bad on the surface, but at times, overdoing something can have detrimental effects that hamper the objectives of the initial endeavour. Two subsets of the above behaviour are [...]
It seems that my passion for building and designing sites has been reinvigorated since the launch of sgBEAT, and over this last month or so I’ve been actively redesigning a few of my own sites, mostly for fun. I designed a couple more too, so I’ll be talking about them here as well. Expression Despite [...]
I had been working with my brothers on sgBEAT these past few months, and I had avoided writing about it because we hadn’t gone into public Beta yet. sgBEAT is essentially a microblogging platform specifically dedicated to Singaporeans, where users can share updates of their lives via the Web or SMS. Another aim of our [...]
I just downloaded the soft copy of this book from SitePoint, and it’s being given away for free for only two weeks. I’ve never formally learnt CSS, nor can I remember how I picked it up, but nonetheless it’s a powerful tool for web design. I’m definitely looking forward to starting on this book once [...]
The lessons for the term are over, and in NM2216 Introduction to Interactive Media Design, I learnt about design concepts more pertinent to an interactive interface itself. What I learnt before the mid-semester break was mostly about design dimensions, and this time around the topics were more interesting yet challenging to understand. Affordances and Constraints [...]
I had quite a fancy for grunge designs since a few years back, similar to the kind of art found in Linkin Park’s albums. Such design did influence me to a certain extent, and was reflected in areas of my life like fashion and clothing. I suppose that liking could have been considered part of the [...]
This post is briefly what has been covered in NM2216 Introduction to Interactive Media Design so far this term, and for the project for this module we’re required to design around the dimensions covered here. Namely, these dimensions are purpose, users, activity, context and multimodalities. Purpose The purpose of one’s product is important in aligning [...]