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吳健群 Chien

🗓 Last updated at

8/21/2021

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📚 On my reading/watching/podcast list:

Product design skills

Design systems

A11y

Self-help/growth/development

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a11y annotation

design systems

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https://uxdesign.cc/how-to-hand-off-accessible-designs-to-developers-e10a0eeacaa6⁠

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Product ←→ System in a loop

design systems

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https://aneventapart.com/news/post/maintaining-design-systems-by-brad-frost-aea-video⁠

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Great visual

storytelling

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http://aisforalbert.com⁠

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Should we use [system name] for this project?

design systems

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhWrLCZdSSY⁠

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Prototype to verify our assumption and find opportunities cheaper and faster.

MEH

XYZ

design process

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https://medium.com/ux-collaboration/會-prototyping-的你聽過-pretotyping-嗎-4cef0f417dca⁠

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Metrics of employee experience: SPACE

employee experience

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https://future.a16z.com/on-workplace-productivity/⁠

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Experience level of design systems: context, journey, factors

design systems

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https://ux.shopify.com/why-design-systems-need-experience-foundations-c5a6967fc4e7⁠

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Is your system strict or loose, codular or integrated, and centralized or distributed?

design systems

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https://uxdesign.cc/everything-you-need-to-know-about-design-systems-54b109851969⁠

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Airbnb is famous for storytelling (story as a design material), and this video is full of great storytelling skills, and lots of great stories.

storytelling

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https://www.airbnb.com/2021/announcement⁠

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Because yes, all my notes end up digital. Ultimately, my main work happens in computers, so I consider digital notes canonical. My paper notebooks are more like inboxes or scratchpads — places for thinking/remembering in the moment.

personal information

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https://jarango.com/2021/05/11/how-i-take-notes/⁠

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If your credentials and work history aren't stellar, the narrative you should convey is one of rapid growth.

interview

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https://tanthai.substack.com/p/interviews⁠

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YouTube and podcasts are great ways for me to learn new things.

Set aside 10-20% of "career time" each week for learning (don't spend 100% time on projects)

self-help / learning

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https://twitter.com/shreyas/status/1294480873643839488⁠

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Killers for B2B products: 1) Inertia 2) Spreadsheets 3) Email & Slack workflows ... and organizational issues

B2B

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https://twitter.com/shreyas/status/1379943531221897220⁠

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Lagom

design systems

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xww-x7DgiDw⁠

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Mining creative inspiration across the visual, functional, and conceptual aspects of design and build your muscle memory.

career

interface and interaction

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https://www.intercom.com/blog/how-to-steal-like-a-designer-and-boost-creativity/⁠

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We’ll start designing apps for small audiences, not big. Companies will run on their own apps, hundreds of them, tailor-made for every team, project, and meeting. In this world, there’ll be no such thing as an edge case. All the previously underserved teams and individuals will get a perfect-fitting solution without needing to beg an engineer.

The maker generation. We all have a thing to share or to create. And we’re pushing software to support us to make our own.

trends

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https://hbr.org/2019/01/what-will-software-look-like-once-anyone-can-create-it⁠

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Better to have a button always enabled, and if users didn't provide some required information just highlight the empty fields, or bring up notification.

interface and interaction

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https://uxdesign.cc/button-design-user-interface-components-series-85243b6736c7⁠

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Which qualities of people around me do I admire, and how can I learn from them?

How can I find out more about my likes and dislikes?

career

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https://medium.com/the-year-of-the-looking-glass/coffee-chat-series-1-getting-ahead-as-an-early-career-designer-12d0c0aaec67⁠

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Design files are a communication tool

design systems

communication

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https://www.figma.com/community/file/967069265207476318⁠

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Lead by example, not by explanation. In my experience, trying to document every scenario ends up creating a laundry list of exceptions.

The goal is efficiency, not consistency.

design systems

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https://uxdesign.cc/defining-design-system-principles-69e4790b95b0⁠

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Growth mindset - self awareness, seeking for help, solve the problem, level up - your passion and 80/20

career

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https://pca.st/w35lnyg5#t=649.0⁠

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A design system has to be sold to be successful.

design systems

16. Adam Argyle from Google: Making your design system freeing vs. constraining

https://pca.st/myy83fg7⁠

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Many tips on portfolio, interview, portfolio presentation, and more.

job searching

interview

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Design in the Real World⁠

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The consistent use of color keeps cognitive load low and makes for a unified and engaging user experience

Great image of guidelines in the link.

design systems

Atlassian’s semantic color

https://atlassian.design/foundations/color#semantic-color⁠

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Always negotiate the salary with info/reasons/data, and with a range of numbers

Asking for more money <> Losing an offer

Recruiters usually put the number btw min and mid first

interview

Negotiate salary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8DptwIC_MQ⁠

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Find my rituals and manage myself in order to have more time to use.

For now, I’ll summarize by saying that quality thinking time is essential to me. I prioritize it over things like TV, coffee, and sleeping in. It’s not for everybody, but time here is limited. We owe it to ourselves to use it intentionally.

self-help / learning

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https://jarango.com/2021/04/07/how-i-manage-thinking-time/⁠

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Thinking of product dev as a series of experiment leads to stronger design.

Form hypothesis from observation or opinions (small sample). Then run experiments with A/B testing (large sample). All in all it helps to approach design in a more methodical way.

design process

Design like a scientist by Netflix Designer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRd6Ddn4ZSY&list=WL&index=7⁠

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