Purple nails with a flower and initials of my school.
I painted on my nails with initials of my school to celebrate the end of my graduate program. These are temporary, and I may take them off after graduation!
Purple nails!
In preparation for a commencement, I changed my nails yesterday to pure purple that matches with the color of my university logo. Put rose stickers to add some love =)
Facebook tweaked their design again on Thursday. This time I could not resist but to say one word: FAIL. I personally do not mind having some “UI enhancements (Tech Crunch)” if the changes are subtle and minor. I will calm down and sip a cup of English tea even if my profile menu moved from top to left with weird icons or if 1/4 of the page was occupied by ridiculous ads. But I want to ask Mr. Zuckerberg about the log out button.
How do you LOG OUT from here?
I came to the newly-designed Facebook page today (see above picture). I was surprised by the change, but didn’t freak out until I decided to log out.
How do I get out from here?
I found no log out button. Apparently, Mr. Zuckerberg wants me to stay on FB forever.
It was hidden. You have to click on "Account" to get out.
After some effort, I found a hidden log out button (see above picture). Seriously, isn’t a log out button one of the most basic and critical navigation features for Websites? With this hidden log out button, I declare the new FB design the major failure. I want my old FB back.
juridesign.com version 2.0
I’m in the process of re-designing my portfolio site at www.juridesign.com. I’ve released the first version today. I will be tweaking and retouching the pages from now. I wanted to release it before things start getting crazy with a thesis project, classes and an internship.
Now it’s time to debug…
Comments are welcome.
One of my new year’s resolutions is to improve my poor circulation, a common problem for Japanese females, by eating well. I started reading many blogs and cooking sites about recommended ingredients and recipes for warming the body. On Sunday I cooked a Japanized Korean Samgyetang (蔘鷄湯 or 삼계탕) for dinner with chicken, ginger, garlic and vegetables. It turned out pretty nicely and I enjoyed the leftover for lunch next day. Another thing I did on Sunday was to try FreshDirect for the first time. I was always interested in using their convenient service, but never had a chance or a particular reason to do so. Luckily they have a campaign for new customers that whoever register gets 25% discount on the first two purchases with no delivery fees. Why not give it a try? So I decided to order a little bit of everything to see how they are. Here are the items I’ve ordered:
- Cheese: formaffio fresh salted mozzarella
- Dairy: Dannon Activia (for a special price of 4pks for $3!)
- Organic: broccolette and Silk Soymilk 1qt
- Veggies: green bell pepper, hass avocados and a bag of yellow onions
- Meat: Boneless chicken tenders 12 pieces and wild flounder fillet
All for a total of only $24 with the discount.
The box was delivered to me this morning at 8am.
freshdirect delivered fresh to my door
I think it’s extremely convenient to have your groceries delivered especially if you have heavy stuff including a bag of onions and milk, things I usually do not want to carry.
So far so good, freshdirect
All veggies and meat look fresh. I already opened one Activia yogurt for breakfast. I will freeze the chicken for a later usage, and will probably cook the flounder for lunch or dinner.
I may purchase items from the FreshDirect again since I still get the discount as the newly registered user!
I’m very looking forward to the improvement of my circulation by the end of the semester 
Whitney Museum's new website
I was reading one of blog articles by Mark Hurst at Good Experience, and found that the Whitney Museum has recently launched a new website. I love the fact that they put the “Visit” section prominently on the landing page. They made this section AJAX-based (like Google’s Gmail) that allows dynamic interaction, so visitors can get information without reloading a page or jumping to another page. It’s great.
One issue, which I think is so critical, is the choice of white text on black background. Is Whitney a funeral company? The landing page looks acceptable, because there are more images than text. But when I go to “Get Involved” page, for example, the black and white contrast kills my eyes and takes over my attention that I cannot focus on anything else. I hope the website’s color palette is a temporary experiment or something specific to one of exhibitions. I will come back to the site in a month or so to see if they changed the color.
I’ve been designing a mock up UI(user interface) for a browser-based app for iPhone for the past few days as part of my final projects at ITP. I’ve pretty much ruined my sketchbook for drawing a bunch of layout and wireframes. I found several interesting resources for designing iPhone specific UIs. Whether I use them or not, I decided to post here for future reference.
For those who are too lazy to draw buttons and lines…there’s an “iPhone Stencil Kit” for $17.95!
iPhone Stencil Kit sample picture
Of course, there’s a sweet Photoshop GUI, which I’m using right now.
iPhone GUI, Photoshop file
If you need a conceptual stuff, there’s an essay by John Gruber about how to make your UI “iPhone-like”.
And lastly, if you’re talking about information design there’s no way you can ignore Edward Tufte. Here’s his video talking about the user experience on iPhone.