User Experience

I have moved my blog!

nobody@vox.com(Howie Chang) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:34:32 +0800

Hi guys, do take note that I have moved my blog to http://www.howiechang.com. Do update your bookmark ya? See you there!

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Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong demos QIK

nobody@vox.com(Howie Chang) — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:41:56 +0800

In the National Day Rally 2008 Speech, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong explained how his Singapore government has been, and will continue to, interact with citizens through new media on the Internet.

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The Googley Experience

nobody@vox.com(Howie Chang) — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:27:22 +0800

The Google User Experience team aims to create designs that are useful, fast, simple, engaging, innovative, universal, profitable, beautiful, trustworthy, and personable. Achieving a harmonious balance of these ten principles is a constant challen...

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Google's Joe Kraus on How to Make the Web More Social

nobody@vox.com(Howie Chang) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:18:10 +0800

Our view at Google is that's a transitory phase in the development of the whole social web, and that those friend relationships that you create on these sites should be usable and portable and allow you to get benefit no matter where you go on th...

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MySpace Redesign

nobody@vox.com(Howie Chang) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:42:05 +0800

I am not sure about you, but when a huge site like MySpace does a redesign, it must be a feat to pull it off. Plausible indeed. Although it’s not an earth shattering change, but, for the ugliest social networking site of all time, its a welcome on...

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Design Thinking

nobody@vox.com(Howie Chang) — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:46:52 +0800

Harvard Business Review has published an article by Tim Brown, the CEO of IDEO, on design thinking. Tim is certain that thinking like a designer can transform the way you develop products, services, processes—and even strategy! In the past, desig...

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Here In My Home - Malaysian Artistes For Unity

nobody@vox.com(Howie Chang) — Thu, 29 May 2008 02:11:29 +0800

I miss home. Serious. pete was juggling tomatoes. bored. so he telephoned a few friends. “how about getting together to make an anti-racism national unity song and music video?” all said yes without hesitation. not because pete threatened them ...

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Evening with Vinton Cerf

nobody@vox.com(Howie Chang) — Wed, 28 May 2008 14:19:23 +0800

What an evening I must say! I am pretty satisfied with the turnout as well as how the event was managed from A to Z. Of course, we did a couple of mistakes which we should have known better, but well, we learnt, and we move on. I also managed to ...

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Design anthropology: What can it add to your design practice?

nobody@vox.com(Howie Chang) — Mon, 26 May 2008 12:33:17 +0800

Design Anthropology takes user research to a whole new level. Dr. Elizabeth Tunstall explains in an essay on Adobe Design Center’s Think Tank how this emerging field can help to redefine design by exploring what it means to be human. Designers p...

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The revamped $100 laptop

nobody@vox.com(Howie Chang) — Mon, 26 May 2008 12:23:59 +0800

One Laptop Per Child, the group developing a low-cost computer for children in the developing world, has unveiled designs for a sleeker, more stylish version of the XO laptop. The new laptop, which will be smaller and more energy efficient than...

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