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Feb 21, 2022

Book notes: Steal like an artist

As a relaxing Sunday afternoon reading, I picked up the 10th-anniversary version of the book “Steal like an artist” written by Austin Kleon. I finished it in one afternoon and got inspired a lot. It is a light book with 10 tips to “be creative”. As Austin wrote, “These ideas…

Book Review

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Book notes: Steal like an artist
Book notes: Steal like an artist
Book Review

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Feb 6, 2022

Conceptual Age & A Whole New Mind

Take some time to reflect on the following three questions about your job: Can someone overseas do it cheaper? Can a computer do it faster? Is what I’m offering in demand in an age of abundance? If you are a designer, this means you should ask: can some automated tools…

Book Review

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Conceptual Age & A Whole New Mind
Conceptual Age & A Whole New Mind
Book Review

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Dec 17, 2021

How to Escape the Build Trap?

Watch out for the Build Trap! What is it? The symptom is simple: doing tons of work but unclear about WHY. The team keeps themselves busy with new requirements. They are clear about how many hours of work were tracked, how many files were created, how many iterations, new releases…

Product Management

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How to Escape the Build Trap?
How to Escape the Build Trap?
Product Management

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Dec 11, 2021

Effective presentation

How many words do you have on your slides? One simple rule to check if your slide is effective is to count how many texts it has and what text size is used. Why? The presentation’s main focus should be on the presenter, not the slides. The slides serve as…

Presentation Design

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Effective presentation
Effective presentation
Presentation Design

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Nov 26, 2021

Book note: The War of Art

“It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write.” — Steven Pressfield What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance. That is the keyword the book “The War of Art” wants to address. What resistance is stopping us from? “Any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term growth”, any…

Books

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Books

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Published in Ginetta

·Nov 12, 2021

LEGO Serious Play: Have fun while creating big ideas

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to find answers to serious questions in a playful way? If you are frustrated with traditional meetings, how about taking the LEGO bricks out of the kids’ room and trying out LEGO Serious Play? A new way to create and share ideas “What are the challenges in our current team set up?” or, “What…

Methods

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LEGO Serious Play: Have fun while creating big ideas
LEGO Serious Play: Have fun while creating big ideas
Methods

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Oct 2, 2021

My Q2 & Q3 review

Keep the previous structure, and I will review with 3 aspects Design projects Internal initiatives Reading & writing Design projects Finished a corporate website redesign, with new information architecture, new branding, new CMS. It took 7 design sprints, from May to Sep. I learned a lot of lessons. Topics like content audit…

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My Q2 & Q3 review
My Q2 & Q3 review

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Apr 25, 2021

Medical Thangka, stunning ancient visualization work

I am into topics like conceptual modeling, data visualization and how to extract information to create striking visuals for simple and direct communication. When I bumped into a series of 17century Tibetan medical paintings, the best demonstration of how ancient Tibet people unlocked the power of visual language, it immediately…

Visualization

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Medical Thangka, stunning ancient visualization work
Medical Thangka, stunning ancient visualization work
Visualization

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Published in Ginetta

·Apr 17, 2021

From idea to prototype in two weeks

A good setup is more than halfway to success — “We want to launch this tool in 2 months as part of the big campaign. Here is the idea. Can the design be done in 2 weeks?” This was the case when the Swiss health insurance company Atupri approached Ginetta with the request for a mental health evaluation tool that…

Collaboration

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From idea to prototype in two weeks
From idea to prototype in two weeks
Collaboration

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Apr 3, 2021

Summary of my writing course

This blog post summarizes briefly what I learned from the course “Writing for confidence” given by Clare Lynch. For people who are writing: Show up, get stuff written. It will just take years before your ambition & taste matches your actual work. Don’t quit before that. In Design, we talk…

Writing

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Writing

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