• Nov 02, 2012

    Notes of "Zen of Palm" - 4 Design Practice (II)

    Pragmatic Innovation: get rid of everything else On page 14 it says: Identify the problems Find the simplest solution to each problem Get rid of everything else In product design, it’s a typical approach to ex...

  • Sep 02, 2012

    Notes of "Zen of Palm" - 3 Design Practice (I)

    After talking about Palm’s design philosophy, now we look at how they design in practice. As always, let’s start from doing a quiz. As you can see, this quiz keeps up the same idea as the last one. They all describe the ...

  • Aug 27, 2012

    Notes of "Zen of Palm" - 2 Design Philosophy

    Palm sums up its design philosophy in three points: Palm solutions are user-centric; Palm Powered handhelds can be used anywhere, anytime; Palm OS applications have a specific focus. Among them, the first one is now...

  • Aug 23, 2012

    Notes of "Zen of Palm" - 1 Preface

    This series of articles is basically a translation from my original Chinese articles which were posted about 4 years ago. I wanted to buy a PDA in the spring of 2004, and was hesitating for a long time between the Pa...

  • Jul 27, 2012

    The definitive guide to Web flowcharts

    About four years ago, I wrote a blog post (in Chinese) about Web flowcharts design. It was, and still is, very popular. Today, I'm thrilled to publish the long-awaited follow-up article: The definitive guide to Web flowcharts. ...

  • Jan 24, 2011

    设计的意义

    最近通过各种渠道和形式接触了几位设计师,他们来自不同的公司,做着迥异的产品,但当我问起类似于“设计的意义”这样的问题时,他们的回答均不能让人满意。最常见的回答是:比原来好用了、好看了,或者这是业...

  • Dec 14, 2010

    人本设计沙龙第三次活动报名开始了!

    经过了一段时间的筹备,人本设计沙龙第三次活动终于拉开序幕了。 这次我们的组委会有了新成员,分别是来自广州的Doris-一个非常聪明活泼的小姑娘,和同样在广州的 @kyhpudding -腾讯的...

  • Dec 13, 2010

    橡树网上线

    作了一个小站点:橡树 http://xiangshu.us 其实这个站点早在10.1假期前就做好并发布上线了,不过因为工作和琐事缠身,一直没有公布消息,渐渐地居然就忘记了。幸亏整理域名时发现了...

  • Jul 22, 2010

    SAP用户体验研讨会和“白首双星”计划

    SAP用户体验研讨会 上周六参加了由SAP中国研究院举办的SAP UX Conference 2010。这大概是SAP第一次在上海乃至国内搞这样的活动,但是办得非常不错。场次安排合理,服务细致...

  • Jul 02, 2010

    在盛大在线做的《闲谈用户体验》的讲稿

    周二在盛大在线做了个名为《闲谈用户体验》的分享,内容不多且以知识普及为主,又删减了一些不方便公开的内容,所以个人觉得可读性一般。拿出来抛砖引玉吧: 这个幻灯片在slidershare上的地...