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Feb 27

Dear mum

1/ I finished reading ‘Crying in the H Mart’ on the tram ride home. The book is a love letter from an American-Korean daughter to her mum, a resilient, loving, but tough Korean mother who succumbed to cancer in her fifties. Food, ingredients, and recipes were how the daughter connected…

Coming Out

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Dear mun
Dear mun
Coming Out

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Published in Humans of Xero

·Nov 8, 2020

How to facilitate a remote design jam

10 tips for guiding your team through a smooth and stress-free experience — I’ve participated in a number of design jams and hackathons as a designer. It’s a great way to work and collaborate with designers I haven’t met before, while appreciating the wide range of skills everyone brings to the table, such as strategy, business analysis, prototyping, visual communication and even coding. …

Design

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How to facilitate a remote design jam
How to facilitate a remote design jam
Design

7 min read


Published in UX Collective

·Sep 5, 2020

Writing my first Figma plugin as a designer

Designers often run into manual tasks when using design tools. For example, renaming or resizing a dozen frames in a hurry, creating the same set of elements at the start of any projects, show or hide certain elements on the page, and many more. I often think about ways to…

Figma

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Writing my first Figma plugin as a designer
Writing my first Figma plugin as a designer
Figma

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Published in UX Collective

·Aug 13, 2020

A simple way to keep track of your design iterations in Figma

Documenting design iterations on the fly in Figma with one extra habit. No plugins required. — As designers, telling a good story is always part of the job. A great story engages the client with the journey of decision making; it shows your team the breadth and depth of the exploration; it also encourages us to reflect on our own design process. Documenting design iterations helps…

UI

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A simple way to keep track of your design iterations in Figma
A simple way to keep track of your design iterations in Figma
UI

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Published in UX Collective

·Aug 2, 2020

Handing over design with spacers in Figma

Now that you have spacers, let’s talk about design handover. — I was quite surprised by how much the design community resonated with the concept of spacers since I published my last story. It encouraged me to think more deeply about the role of spacers in design and development. …

Figma

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Handing over design with spacers in Figma
Handing over design with spacers in Figma
Figma

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Published in UX Collective

·Jun 12, 2020

Worry less about spacing in Figma

Use spacers and auto-layout in Figma to speed up your spacing game in interface design. — I spend way too much time caring about spacing when designing interfaces and building design systems. You are probably no stranger to the constant 1 px and 8 px nudging, continuous checking of the bottom or in-between space for a previous component you have created, or the classic coming back…

Figma

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Worry less about spacing in Figma
Worry less about spacing in Figma
Figma

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Published in UX Collective

·Apr 17, 2020

How I shipped my new design portfolio under 5 hours

Walking through a rapid iteration of my design portfolio made possible by Notion. — Over the Easter break, I challenged myself to set aside an evening rethinking the structure, content and design of my portfolio in Notion with a focus on its mobile experience. I want to share my thinking process with you. (my new portfolio is here) Hold on, why Notion? Notion is effectively a CMS (content…

Design Thinking

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How I shipped my new design portfolio under 5 hours
How I shipped my new design portfolio under 5 hours
Design Thinking

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Published in UX Collective

·Apr 11, 2020

Figma makes note-taking in remote usability testing easy

Sharing my experience of using virtual post-it notes in Figma to capture feedback, thoughts and more in remote usability testing. — Sitting in a handful of remote usability testing sessions recently and doing note taking, I started developing a virtual post-it notes system in Figma to help me keep track of the conversation, share with my colleagues, and ultimately make synthesis a lot easier. Let’s dig in.

Design

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Figma makes note-taking in remote usability testing easy
Figma makes note-taking in remote usability testing easy
Design

4 min read


Jan 11, 2020

A visual report for my 2019

I have collected some interesting data about myself this past year. Why not turning them into a visual report?

Annual Report

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A visual report for my 2019
A visual report for my 2019
Annual Report

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Published in Prototypr

·Sep 21, 2019

Creating visibility and connection at my design studio

AKA. How linked database in Notion helps me tackle some studio-wide challenges TL;DR I have been getting a lot of benefit from documenting my design work using Notion for the past year. It helps me understand myself as a designer, my outputs and skills, learnings and room for growth. …

Productivity

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Creating visibility and connection at my design studio
Creating visibility and connection at my design studio
Productivity

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Lennon Cheng

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