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Information on how I designed the UI for The Miele Guide.
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.
Fukinsei 不均斉: Asymmetry, odd numbers, irregularity, unevenness and imbalance as a denial of perfection. Perfection and symmetry does not occur in nature.
This series of articles on Wabi Sabi (in Kanji: 侘寂) were transferred from my old blog and rewritten for AEN UI.
This series of articles on Wabi Sabi (in Kanji: 侘寂) were transferred from my old blog and rewritten for AEN UI.
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 was in Bencoolen Street today for a meeting with Aun from Ate Consulting at a cafe in Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. After the meeting, it started to rain so I stopped by the National Library to avoid getting drenched as the backpack with my MacBook Pro in it isn’t water-proof.I went up to ...
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 ...
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 ...
Why do I say that? This is not a “I haven’t been blogging since … and now I am” post, it is a rather different kind. What I meant was it is good to have a blog that is a …
Why do I say that? This is not a “I haven’t been blogging since … and now I am” post, it is a rather different kind. What I meant was it is good to have a blog that is a …
Ate Media for Miele, clientAEN, art director / designerChua U-Zyn, Ajax, PHP, MySQLVisit The Miele GuideThe first phase of The Miele Guide was launched a month ago and had received much public attention, on online publications, newspapers and blogs. Today we are releasing the 2nd phase of The Miele Guide, with nominated restaurants in 16 ...
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 ...
Big thanks to jak who brought our broken feed to our attention in a comment he left here. We have managed to rectify the problem and fixed our feed so it can be read in feed readers.The problem was that somehow something in the theme is adding blank lines to the top of our feed ...
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
After half a month of development we have finally launched the first phase of The Miele Guide, which I played the role of its designer. Big thanks to Adrianna, Aun and Pauline of Ate Media who worked with us tirelessly to get everything in order, and Uzyn the PHP and MySQL Wizard who took time ...
Ate Media for Miele, clientAEN, art director / designerChua U-Zyn, Ajax, PHP, MySQLThe Miele Guide will be Asia’s first truly independent regional restaurant guide when launched in October …
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 …
Last week I wrote of how movement controlled by the mouse can be more organic by introducing factors such as speed and acceleration. For part 2 of the series, I’m adding mouse angle/direction into the equation.To recap, here’s the most basic form of mouse-controlled movement found in many Flash websites today. What ...
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 ...
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