Helen Tran

Searching for the marvellous, depraved and hilarious • Product Designer @Shopify • http://helentran.com

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The Future of UI and the Dream of the ‘90s

I once worked for a client where I was the only Designer on the team and the only female involved in building the product.

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From the desk of the politely angry

I sat in the audience while someone stood in front of me using sex and women as punchlines in his talk. Throughout the hour, he flashed…

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JIBO and Our Relationships with Personal Electronics

This year marks the thirteenth year of my partnership with technology.

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This is Water

David Foster Wallace’s commencement speech for Kenyon graduates in 2005 opens with a parable, Two young fish are swimming along and they…

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On Gravity and Relationships

In my medium-length life, I have discovered that relationships make up about 97% of the perceived happiness of 98% of the population. So…

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Design culture is a frozen shithole

We don’t need more superficial solutions to superficial problems. We need real answers to real problems — big ones and small ones.

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Why Should We Support the Idea of an Unconditional Basic Income?

An answer to a growing question of the 21st century

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