I heard this phrase before「活着无意义」, which I thought it was meant “Life is meaningless”. Recently, I learned it actually means “Life is insignificant”. A recent event that happened in China really got me to start thinking about this phrase. On the grand scale of things, life is so insignificant,
I haven’t written a newsletter for so long. Thank you to those of you who signed up recently. Let me just reintroduce myself. I’m Ryan, a product designer, running designerslack.community. I think most of you signed up through there. I started this newsletter to share articles I
I didn't work on the newsletter for the past two weeks. So sorry for the people who were waiting for it. It was tough to build the habit when things got busy in the other part of life. It's even more complicated when I try to pick up the speed.
A huge redesign of my company's public-facing product just launched. We got quite a few feedback from field ops that it causes some confusion to our customers, and our testing volume has dropped. It was honestly scary to hear that. I panicked a bit because I was the one who
I've been working fully remote since the quarantine started. While it's nice to have control of my own schedule, it's fairly easy to mix personal life and work life together, which results in burnout. I'm also working as the sole designer of my company, this did not make managing burnout
I was having some discussions around crypto and decentralization in the DesignX slack group. While I think I have a basic understanding of those concepts, I realized I can't quite fully put my opinion into words. I'm still missing a lot of pieces. So let this be my start of
This weekend was one of those rare sunny weekends during winter for Vancouver, but for me, it was one of the saddest weekends ever. The drummer from one of my favourite Taiwanese bands, 草東沒有派對, passed away in the hotel she was quarantined at. I feel fortunate to see their band
First of all, thank you for signing up for this newsletter on Designer Slack Communities. I'm Ryan, the creator of Designer Slack Communities. Currently, I'm working at Curative to design for COVID-19, and mentoring designers on ADPList. You might be wondering what this newsletter is about. Honestly, I'm not sure.