Data influences the quality of the design process, product solution, designer’s skills, and culture. — Have you ever been asked by stakeholders “Why…?” over your presentation and things you throw are just assumptions or designer-intuition kind of things? Stakeholders prioritize things that are relevant to themselves, what impresses designers may not necessarily impress stakeholders. If it’s business people, they mostly just care about profits, metrics…

We need to know which ones need to be prioritized. — April 2023. Spotify, one of the biggest music streaming platforms, published a new update with the brand new Your Library section, which is now grouped together with the sidebar. Let’s breakdown on: What…

There are 5 must-have aspects of a designer. Tuesday morning, September 20th, I was watching a new video from Borrys Hasian, it’s just a casual video called Ngobrol Spontan Design Chit-Chat. But the takeaways aren’t light as the talk itself. There are many notes I took, but here are some…

How it felt like to work with a design project without clarifying things. This writing is to reflect and tell the story of how I was working out with my college fellow to design his website. He came to me, asked about design. It’s the middle of May, my college friend offers me a mini UX &…

On Saturday, May 28th. I was having a class about UX Copy case studies. We’re being given a product brief and then tasks to generate copy based on the brief itself. While practicing together to solve the case study, my point of interest always looking at the Product Intent and…

Put a cherry on your work — Wouldn’t it be great if we could make our work better by asking one question? This is my experience about asking the right question for the right result. What if you can (hopefully) create the best effort (and result) of every work? Applying this question to your daily basis it’s like putting a cheery on top of your cake, it’s already good but we…

When rules become a habit. — It’s been almost a year since I’m practicing this rule, at first I have to maintain and finding the greatest method that fits into my daily life, and now here I am, it’s becoming a habit, even if I don’t do it I feel something is missing. But, what is this? The 20/20/20 rule…