3 things to do to adjust your design process Delivering useful and usable design is the core responsibility of a designer’s job; however, it becomes difficult to do so if the overall design process is unclear and unstructured. …

Reflections on my early days — For a long time, I wanted to put my thoughts together on this topic but neither I was too busy nor was afraid of offending people. …

Three things to consider before opening any prototyping tools — Without a prototype, it’s common to see confusion and misunderstandings in a discussion, leaving people to imagine how the screens behave. I notice that some designers see static mocks as “the prototypes” in my current working environment. I asked them why “interactive prototyping” is not part of their design process…

Collaboration is truly important — Intro This week, we continue the focus of the project. We have been working on several different features and gradually building upon the ideas. After a week of hard works, we have achieve most of the features and did a presentation to the rest of group. Reflection At the mid of the…

The fundamentals of the project — Reflection This week together with another student, we were tasked to complete project about creating a simple game. We decided to re-make the famous t-rex game from Google Chrome as we both are familiar and confident enough to make it. Later, we planned out the foundation of the project, including project management work stream, GitHub repo and the most important element: breaking down functions to be developed.

Intro to HTML canvas and animation — Reflection Past week has been tougher than before since the lectures changed to a different subject: HTML Canvas. And we also touched upon fundamental logical of animation. Dom manipulation as it is already hard to grasp, adding canvas into the formula wouldn’t help. Tips Think bigger picture first, laying out the frame update logic as the initial attempt instead of starting out with making one component’s animation works really well.

The intersection between HTML, CSS and Javascript — Reflection After a week of holiday, we are back to the Bootcamp again. This week we touch upon two major topics: CSS DOM manipulation As a designer, I know how unmanageable CSS could be and I was trying to keep it very consistent as possible. However, the concept of write efficient…

Right into Objective Oriented Programming — Reflection This week, we paused a little from the fundamental Javascript course, and dive into classes! A little confusing but I do see some concepts related to Java or even some concepts I know from Swift. Tips Reduce function can be used to categorise/cluster object based on specified criteria, for example, if…

Now it’s getting serious for the Bootcamp! All lab works are getting deadline. Reflection Second week all of a sudden got more difficult and the pace is getting faster I managed to solve the lab but the last one somehow got more difficult and not sure if the solution I came…