👋 Oi, mga repapips, Brian Dys here! I love music, photography, and creative stuff like UX design and art. This is a place where I collect my thoughts and works. Apart all these, I’m Jaycelle’s better half and Bryce’s dad. 🥰
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I’ve received a message in ADPList from a graphic designer who’s interested in UX design, asking curious questions about the field. It’s a good start for anyone exploring to ask many questions!
Hi I’m a graphic designer who is exploring UX/UI design field. Here are my questions:
Do UX/UI designers have to learn HTML/CSS to create an app/website?
Short answer
No, because you can manage your expertise in the world of UX itself and find partners that will focus on frontend development (HTML/CSS/JS) to create an app/website.
Long answer
Creation, design-wise: No, because at this point you’re at the conceptual / mock-up fidelity phase (i.e., design)
Creation, design-wise: Yes, because knowledge in how to implement your designs will make you a better designer; you will know the limitations and possibilities of the actual website you’re designing; also when prototyping, you can use HTML/CSS/JS
Creation, technical implementation-wise: No, because there are tools that export directly from design to code; there are also drag and drop website builders like Google Sites (optimization for a performant website, is another topic, though).
Creation, technical implementation-wise: Yes, because frontend development is close to UX design in terms of process (design then implementation)
A different answer
It depends — you can simply wait to discover where the road of exploring UX design will take you. Me, for example, I started with my interest in HTML & CSS that’s why I got into web design, and eventually UX design.
Does a UX designer design the app/website alone or is it by a team?
Alone: as mentioned above, you could be a UX designer and a frontend developer rolled into one.
Team: also, there are projects that can be launched more efficiently and effectively when done by a team (two heads are better than one).
Is it necessary to make case studies for portfolio or can it just be designs of screens?
Context is always the key to any portfolio item that you will showcase: what are you trying to say to your audience? Which knowledge and skills are you highlighting in that portfolio item? That can definitely be contained in a case study, regardless of its depth and detail. Context tells a little bit more about you and the project you worked on, to your audience.
It also doesn’t have to be a case study. However you will manage to put context into your work. How will you get the message across? If screens can accomplish these things, then it’s all good.
What are some useful tips to get started on UX design?
It’s ok to take one step at a time to understand the fundamentals of UX. This book, The Elements of User Experience by Jesse James Garrett greatly helped me. Might be a good read for you too, as a start.
Good luck on your UX design journey. Remember to have fun! 😎
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What is striking is not the machine’s humanness, but the lengths we are forced to go to become compatible with the machine.
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The lack of language affects even functions that do not seem to be intrinsically “linguistic,” such as math. Developmental research shows that keeping track of exact numbers above four requires knowing the words for these numbers.
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And one of the things that is my little reminder to myself is that when I feel like I need more grit, what I actually need is more help. And when I look at Amelia’s life, and I think, “She needs more discipline, she needs more perseverance, she needs to work harder,” what she actually needs is more kindness. That’s the baseline culture change that’s going to end burnout forever.
The way Goldstein describes it, non-attachment is about not holding on to anything that happens in life, whether those are experiences, events, or thoughts. That’s the difference with detachment, which means you pull away from something. Applying this concept in your life will have a huge difference in the way you live.
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Never view falling as failure. See the truth of it as I did. Falling down is a necessary part of trial and error in motion. Observe the newborn attempting to walk or the young gymnast attempting to tumble. They succeed or learn. Win-Win!
And you surround yourself with a bubble of love, other teachers who can support you and tell you, “Yes, you deserve care. You are a valuable, educated, wonderful human being. You are not just, you know, Darth Vader dealing with these kids. You are a valuable person who deserves resources, who deserves care, who deserves love, who deserves freedom to oscillate.”
We can help remote workers get on top of their workloads and mitigate work-life balance conflicts by moving away from hyper-responsiveness and real-time communication towards greater asynchronous communication — the type that truly gives people the freedom to decide when and where to work.
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The research might also help us to avoid accidental faux pas when we act altruistically ourselves. At the very least, the research shows that you should avoid noisily broadcasting your good deeds. “And if people bring them up, you should downplay them,” says Raihani. Even if you think that you are simply sharing a bit of uplifting news about a cause that you care about, you should err on the side of modesty.
Reputation is the aggregation of ideas that have swarmed your body. Reputation is a list of your chronic afflictions.
As Raihani points out, we are constantly trying to second-guess the reasons for others’ actions – and we punish people harshly when we suspect that their motives are impure. Those instinctive suspicions may or may not be true, of course. We often base our judgements on intuition rather than hard facts.
Why overly kind and moral people can rub you up the wrong way
Generative art/design is any work created with an element of chance. We define some rules and allow a source of randomness to guide us to an outcome.
Once a view becomes part of your identity it’s almost impossible to see its flaws, when it needs to adapt, or has expired.
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Essemy (Jaycelle’s Birthday Song) Chords & Lyrics
Essemy (Jaycelle's Birthday Song)
Music and lyrics by Brian and Bryce
Composed on 25 - 27 November 2021
Esmi + Mommy + SMI = Essemy (read as SMI)
"Esmi" is slang for "misis" or "Mrs"
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Intro
E (bell pluck)
A - D - A - E-E
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Chorus Type 1 (plucking)
A D
You're the most beautiful mom
A E
You're the most beautiful wife
D A
You're the most beautiful SMI
F#m E D A E-E
And I, I, I love you - oh oh
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Stanza 1
D A
I love you so much
E A-A
I wanna kiss you
D
It's your birthday
A E (hold)
I wish you a happy cake
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Chorus Type 1 (strumming)
A D
You're the most beautiful mom
A E
You're the most beautiful wife
D A
You're the most beautiful SMI
F#m E D A E
And I, I, I love you - oh oh
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Chorus Type 2
A D E (bell pluck)
You're the most beautiful friend (I wish you kiss me)
A E E (bell pluck)
You're the most beautiful daughter (I love you daughter)
D A
You're the most beautiful SMI
F#m E D A E
And I, I, I love you - oh oh
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Bridge
F#m C#m D A
And I, I wish all your dreams come true oh-oh
F#m C#m D
And you, you're having a happy day
A E E (mid) E (high)
A happy happy happy birthday oh-oh oh
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Instrumental (strumming)
E (bell pluck)
A - D - A - E (mid)
D (lo) - A - F#m-E-D (hold)
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Chorus Type 1 (pluck + strum)
A D
You're the most beautiful mom
A E (mid)
And the most beautiful wife
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Outro
(pluck)
A (hi) D E (bell pluck)
And the most beautiful friend (I want to kiss you friend)
A E E (bell pluck)
And the most beautiful daughter (I miss you daughter)
(strum)
D A
You're the most beautiful SMI
F#m E-D A
And I, I love you
D A
You're our most beautiful, J-A-Y-celle
F#m E D A
I, I love you
F#m E D (hold)
And I, I, I
F#m (lo) E D (hold)
And I, I, I
(pluck)
E (mid) A (mid) E (hi) - E (hi+) end with a high note
love you - hmm hmm
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What experience has most impacted your career or identity as a designer?
Many years ago, a fresh grad joined my team and asked a lot of basic questions about design such as information architecture, research, etc. And I didn’t know how to help that person because I was too focused on visual design at that time, and oblivious to UX. Long story short, that member quit out of frustration that they can’t grow in my team. I stepped up my game since then.
What is the biggest professional challenge facing you in the next 6-12 months?
The biggest challenge that I face within the next 6-12 months would be the on-going maturity of the team. I must be able to go with the flow of improvement in order to support their growth.