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I have just finished my talk at BarCampSingapore on the topic "Uselessnism on the Web". I had quite a good audience and I am thankful for that. Strangely I did not time my talk but I finished in roughly 25 minutes, the amount of time speakers were allocated.
I designed and build our website over the last two months and launched it yesterday, along with a new article on signage typography. Have a look and tell me what you like or hate about it.
I just placed an order on Apple Store Singapore for a 17 inch MacBook Pro. I will be using it mainly for my work at Widgeo.us office and whenever I am outside. I am finally able to be a true blue mobile warrior. Here is the juicy configuration of the MacBook Pro I ordered.Processor 2.5GHz ...
There are many ways users can get to the content you want them to get to. Search is one of them, and a major one.
I am porting this article and its 2nd part over from my old blog of an early experimental concept of how the classic easing+mouse-following movieclip can be made more organic (code is in AS2).What’s a mouse-following movieclip? You can find examples of mouse-following movieclips at the Haze website I did and this Kirupa tutorial. Below ...
It’s the room/studio which my wife-to-be Vivi and I share. Our current layout started as an adequately spacious dwelling but has since become a crowded and barely hospitable mess as we introduced new furniture and hardware.Share This
Looking through my site statistics today I found an interesting blog that linked to me. I visited World Lore and it appears that it has somehow managed to magically get the WordPress theme used on this site to appear on their site. The thing is I have not released this theme to the public.
This is probably a problem faced by many startups that are in development.For the past 4 months, it had been our intention to complete Alpha development before opening up the platform to a very small group of developers for evaluation and feedback. It would have been like a pre-beta invitation list. But at the end ...
I am porting this article and its 2nd part over from my old blog of an early experimental concept of how the classic easing+mouse-following movieclip can be made more organic (code is in AS2).What’s a mouse-following movieclip? You can find examples of mouse-following movieclips at the Haze website I did and this Kirupa tutorial. Below ...
Catch me fiddling with Photoshop at Face Off Photoshop, held at Level 3 Pico Creative Centre, this Thursday, 24 April 2008. If you want to attend this 3-hour event, do register at http://www.isdt.edu.sg/register.aspx. For more information, please visit the organizer’s website at http://www.isdt.edu.sg/faceoff/index.htm.Share This
If you are wondering what story is behind this post title, it has nothing to do with Tibet nor politics. Brian Ling from Design Sojourn sent me an email yesterday and told me some web design pirates in China has blatantly ripped off the WordPress theme design and CSS I created for Design Sojourn.Before anyone ...
I have been reading up on the Theory of multiple intelligence, an educational theory, first developed by psychologist Howard Gardner, that describes an array of different kinds of “intelligences” exhibited by human beings. Among which, Intrapersonal and Spatial are what I feel I have the most. I like find it easy to grasp philosophy and ...
Kanso is rice, not pasta. You will get tired of eating fancy food but not basic food like rice. Kanso is plain white paper and black ink on paper, not oil on canvas.
I was informed by an editor from Pepin Press—a publisher of design books based in Amsterdam, last year that AEN DIRECT (old name) has been selected to appear in the book “Web Design …
I recently tried out a new web development environment named Coda form Panic Inc., fell in love and decided to move away from Dreamweaver.
I have been reading up on the Theory of multiple intelligence, an educational theory, first developed by psychologist Howard Gardner, that describes an array of different kinds of “intelligences” exhibited by human beings. Among which, Intrapersonal and Spatial are what I feel I have the most. I like find it easy to grasp philosophy and ...
It was a good evening at PopOut!’07. I went with my widgeo.us guys, U-Zyn, Ridzuan and Kah Wee and my girlfriend Vivi.Eric’s Chia presentation was horribly intolerable. His excuse for the faulty profile editing was that there was something wrong with Suntec’s connection, while Herry’s BookJetty Ajax calls were blazing fast. I went back home ...
In my previous post I mentioned that my plan for the redesign of the AEN website will include a more organic interface which reacts to mouse interactions better. I did an early experimental concept of how the classic easing mouse-following movieclip can be made more organic.What’s a mouse-following movieclip? You can find examples of mouse-following ...
A review on the ERGON BD2 backpack featuring features Flink ® ball joint whch is designed to reduce shoulder load.




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