I am a CTO with over 5 years of experience in start-up and over 10 years in working at managing position for big companies. I am also a full-stacks developer with over 12 years in system design, product development and technology product deployment. User experience and system security are the things I care about most.
What Every Designer Needs to Know Before Their First Hackathon
In this article, I’ll share my experience and the lessons I learned attending (and winning) my first hackathon (spoiler alert: you’re not actually hacking anything…😁). One of the reasons I love the world of design so much is that its constant evolution requires you to maintain a growth mindset. You
How I Redesigned Clubhouse, Silicon Valley’s Buzziest app
I wanted to test my limits as a young designer by improving the user experience of Clubhouse, the hottest new audio conversation app on the social media scene. After speaking with both power users and novices on the app, I uncovered some specific pain points with wayfinding and discoverability
HTML vs Body: How to Set Width and Height for Full Page Size
CSS is difficult but also forgiving. And this forgiveness allows us to haphazardly throw styles into our CSS. Our page still loads. There is no “crash”. When it comes to page width and height, do you know what to set on the HTML element? How about the body
Interaction Design – How to Evaluate Interaction Costs and Improve User Experience
There are three core skills that every modern product designer must master: product thinking, visual design, and interaction design. The “table-stakes” for all modern product designers.In general, you should be good at all three, but you should be really good at two. Most designers can teach themselves visual design and
How developers and tech founders can turn their ideas into UI design
by Simon McCade How developers and tech founders can turn their ideas into UI design Discover how to turn a great idea for a product or service into a beautiful UI design for a web or mobile app with this simplified guide for tech startups. Turning brilliant ideas into beautifully
You definitely want to optimize your website’s loading speed. Here’s how.
Do you remember this iconic scene from a very famous Star Wars Parody? Back then we just laughed at how ridiculous the statement sounded — Lightspeed is too slow. But technology has advanced so much that media consumption has to be instantaneous or else people are not going to enjoy
How to build design system with SwiftUI
Building a design system to support one product is not easy – it has to be robust and flexible at the same time for scalability. Though challenging, lots [https://www.designbetter.co/design-systems-handbook/building-design-system] of [https://lightningdesignsystem.com/design-tokens/] great [https://medium.com/eightshapes-llc/tokens-in-design-systems-25dd82d58421] resources [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDBEc3dJJV8] have shared useful principles and approaches that help teams build a good s
How Writing Can Lead to Better Product Design
In my time building and devising products – apps, websites, and graphics makers [http://gfxmaker.com/] – I have come across two types of people in general: those that prefer qualitative narratives and those that prefer data and analytics. The first group is comfortable framing product development in the context of