You’ve been working hard and collaborating with your teammates to create an impressive prototype — congratulations! What is the next step to give you and the team the best chance of winning hackathon prizes? It’s time to enter the demo phase. Present your amazing work with a pitch deck. Haven’t…

Joining a hackathon for the first time as a designer can be anxiety-inducing. You may have many questions, such as “What will I work on?”, “Who will I work with?”, or “Can I fit in some sleep while striving to complete the prototype?” …

”Hackathon” might sound scary, but fret not, it’s not about a group of hackers coming together to hack and steal others’ passwords and credit card details unethically. …

Designers always get asked: “What’s your favorite app?” Increasingly, the app that we use in daily life is no longer one singular app, but a suite of well-integrated hardware and software that seamlessly talk to each other and bring convenience to our life without us realizing it. The devil is…

Yesterday my colleague Ashiful was kind enough to share how to turn a pixelated GIF into a vectorized JSON that’s only 197 kb! The secret trick? Bodymovin + Lottie, which is 600% smaller when compared to GIF 🤯 #mindblown Step 1 Download Bodymovin plugin: https://aescripts.com/bodymovin/ Step 2 Download ZXP Installer…

About 2 months ago, I wrote an article about the design inspiration of Web3 websites. Since then, the article has been well received from the community. I would like to thank all the readers for giving me the support–so here is part 2 of Web3 design inspirations! 11 AKU Created by former…

Update March 14, 2022: Part II is now available here. As former CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey recently tweeted “You don’t own web3 but venture capitalists do” and Marc Andreessen blocked him after the Web3 comments, it is opening up discussions in the community about whether Web3 is really decentralized…

Thankfully, not crashing. — One word to describe my 2020: Rollercoaster. Marching into 2020 with high hopes (partly influenced by the optimism of Vision 2020 coined by former Prime Minister Tun Dr. …

I woke up on Monday morning, just to receive a flood of Slack messages on my phone from my hackathon team members: “WE WON!!”, “1st place too OMG”, and “I’m SOO HAPPY!!”, which literally made my day. 48 hours ago, 5 strangers from the United States (Philadelphia and St. Louis)…