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Jing Yi Beh

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  • I wait a little longer to make a decision but this helps me in assessing all the alternatives thoroughly”
    17 Common UX Interview Questions and Answers
  • The experience with Whereby is personal, enjoyable, and completely different from the duller competition, and there's little doubt that this tool will continue to thrive as it grows into a globally recognized brand.
    A Creative Twist on Video Conferencing with Whereby | Blush Blog
  • Absolutely. You open any inspiration site today and you’ll be filled with illustrations as part of the designs. They offer us so much flexibility and freedom. The possibilities are endless when it comes to illustrations.
    A Creative Twist on Video Conferencing with Whereby | Blush Blog
  • As the platforms we design introduce more common components, which greatly improve the usability and familiarity for users, we now have to put greater emphasis on the visual elements in order to provide beautiful experiences.
    A Creative Twist on Video Conferencing with Whereby | Blush Blog
  • What does it for me is how tangible product design is. You can observe customers interacting with your designs and then quickly learn, iterate and improve in quick succession.
    A Creative Twist on Video Conferencing with Whereby | Blush Blog
  • You could say I was obsessed with learning tools, so I picked up After Effects, Illustrator, and many others, all to challenge myself.
    A Creative Twist on Video Conferencing with Whereby | Blush Blog
  • I believe we'll need to invest in richer communication methods and illustrations have a big part to play in that. Be it a diagram on a whiteboard or a character in a children's book, illustration helps make ideas come to life much quicker than any verbal or written description could.
    A Creative Twist on Video Conferencing with Whereby | Blush Blog
  • By putting them at the center of everything we are able to craft experiences which not only solve real problems, but also manage to create experiences that people love.
    A Creative Twist on Video Conferencing with Whereby | Blush Blog
  • Simulating the feeling of being in person whilst remote is no easy feat and one we continue to challenge ourselves to think differently about.
    A Creative Twist on Video Conferencing with Whereby | Blush Blog
  • instead of creating a carbon copy of other video conferencing tools, Whereby is on a mission to revolutionize the industry by bringing a deeply human and personal feel to their products.
    A Creative Twist on Video Conferencing with Whereby | Blush Blog
  • If this all feels exhausting, it’s probably because it is. It’s likely best to opt out, and some very much do. They leave their Twitter bios the same indefinitely or don’t have one at all. Not playing beats the game of constant reinvention. Existing in a digital space comes with a particular pressure to maintain an online identity that lives up to the bios we so carefully craft. After some time, this can be burdensome.
    Creeping as a Service (CraaS) - Cybernaut - Every
  • The underlying fear driving some of this status line anxiety, that people will point and laugh if we don’t get it just right, is unlikely but not unfounded. Nearly as bad is the idea that nobody might care at all, disinterested in our personal pitch. But if we get the words just right, people might think we’re interesting––worth the follow.
    Creeping as a Service (CraaS) - Cybernaut - Every
  • Spoonbill reveals the surprising scale and frenzying frequency with which all kinds of people make these online edits. We add in emojis, expand and shrink our past affiliations, and flirt briefly with humor, adding clever one-liners before eventually reverting to something more serious. It’s effortfulness on display. Seeing people iterate on their identities in Spoonbill, switching too-formal uppercase for carefree lowercase characters, makes our desire to control how we’re perceived clearly legible.
    Creeping as a Service (CraaS) - Cybernaut - Every
  • Like the photos in your camera roll, your current Twitter bio has left––for Spoonbill users to see––a wake of rejected selves.
    Creeping as a Service (CraaS) - Cybernaut - Every
  • Users adding “permanent student” or “forever learning” to their bios aren’t pupils at cruel and unusual institutions, they’re signalling intellectual curiosity.
    Creeping as a Service (CraaS) - Cybernaut - Every
  • Twitter’s bio section, then, is a tall order: compress your entire identity into a single line item. Many use the space to convey their own complexity––smart yet funny, accomplished but approachable. Society has progressed past the need for the phrase “works hard, plays hard,” but that’s what we’re trying to convey in our own personalized way: we contain multitudes. We are real. Spoonbill reveals the way that people play with their latest positioning of self, carving out character space for their newly important aspects of identity.
    Creeping as a Service (CraaS) - Cybernaut - Every
  • For any one color, take purple for example, all we need to do is decide on a hue. And then we can adjust the lightness to develop select tones to create a palette.
    My struggle with colors. Demystifying colors for accessible… | by Zain Adeel | UX Collective
  • The visual presentation of text and images of text has a contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1, except for the following: (Level AA).
    My struggle with colors. Demystifying colors for accessible… | by Zain Adeel | UX Collective
  • I say a good color system should be: Accessible Systematic Scalable
    My struggle with colors. Demystifying colors for accessible… | by Zain Adeel | UX Collective
  • Secondary colors are used in supplementary UI elements such as icons, tags, status badges, and illustrations. Each color has a light and dark hue with a default and muted variant. Muted colors are denoted by an M prefix, like M400.
    Color / Design / Zendesk Garden
  • Primary colors are used for the structure of interfaces, actionable items, and validation. Colors in the 600, 700, and 800 ranges have a WCAG AA ratio above 4.5:1 against white or 100 backgrounds (excluding yellow-600). The 800 color range has AAA contrast ratios above 7:1 against white and 100 backgrounds.
    Color / Design / Zendesk Garden
  • Working at a small company will give you some responsibility by default. But it’s more important that the company is growing fast and has a fast promotion/transfer cycle.
    What to care about in a job
  • In 2014 I wanted to work for the smallest company possible so I could do important things right away. While I still value having lots of job responsibility, I’ve changed my mind about the best way to achieve it.
    What to care about in a job
  • When I did my first job search, I didn’t think there were good opportunities in software to work on things that directly did good in the world. Instead, I focused on building skills that seemed broadly useful. (In my case, I picked machine learning/data science.)
    What to care about in a job
  • Growth makes everything else better: it increases your impact, makes your job more important, and presents new problems for you to learn how to solve. So (sustainable) fast growth is the number one thing I’d look for.
    What to care about in a job
  • Companies find it incredibly hard to reliably staff positions with hard-working generalists who operate autonomously and have high risk tolerances. This is not the modal employee, including at places which are justifiably proud of the skill/diligence/etc of their employees. …
    What Should You Do with Your Life? Directions and Advice - Alexey Guzey
  • He taught me “the standard pace is for chumps” — that the system is designed so anyone can keep up. If you’re more driven than “just anyone” — you can do so much more than anyone expects. And this applies to all of life — not just school.
    What Should You Do with Your Life? Directions and Advice - Alexey Guzey
  • If you can demonstrate that you have high potential and/or can be useful to somebody, you should just email/tweet them and let them know about it. If you’re thinking “well, I’m not impressive enough” you’re likely wrong.
    What Should You Do with Your Life? Directions and Advice - Alexey Guzey
  • The most successful people I know are primarily internally driven; they do what they do to impress themselves and because they feel compelled to make something happen in the world.
    How To Be Successful
  • A particularly valuable part of building a network is to get good at discovering undiscovered talent. Quickly spotting intelligence, drive, and creativity gets much easier with practice. The easiest way to learn is just to meet a lot of people, and keep track of who goes on to impress you and who doesn’t. Remember that you are mostly looking for rate of improvement, and don’t overvalue experience or current accomplishment.
    How To Be Successful
  • One of the best ways to build a network is to develop a reputation for really taking care of the people who work with you.
    How To Be Successful
  • You can get to about the 90th percentile in your field by working either smart or hard, which is still a great accomplishment. But getting to the 99th percentile requires both—you will be competing with other very talented people who will have great ideas and be willing to work a lot.
    How To Be Successful
  • Focus is a force multiplier on work. Almost everyone I’ve ever met would be well-served by spending more time thinking about what to focus on. It is much more important to work on the right thing than it is to work many hours. Most people waste most of their time on stuff that doesn’t matter.
    How To Be Successful
  • But the whole thing with wisdom is that you can’t prescribe a one-size-fits-all method of application. Good wisdom applies to so many different situations, in so many ways, that going through every possibility would take millennia.
    How to read self-help - TJCX
  • It’s a common complaint that self-help books only give high-level advice and never explain specifically how to implement these changes.
    How to read self-help - TJCX
  • Once we understand the purpose of self-help (acquiring wisdom), we’re in a better position to find good self-help and to extract the most from it. Here are a few tips and tricks.
    How to read self-help - TJCX
  • Okay you get it: self-help is wisdom. So what?
    How to read self-help - TJCX
  • Put a lot of ambitious people in one place and they become more ambitious. Put a lot of wizards in one place and they become more wizardly. If you want to learn to produce magic, surround yourself with wizards. By spending time around them, you can’t help but develop the same traits.
    How To Do Great Work
  • You acquire tacit knowledge by placing yourself in an environment where the people around you are better than you. Stress leads to growth. Growth leads to good work.
    How To Do Great Work
  • Intellectual and career growth works in the same way. I can push myself to read more books and learn new skills. I’ll grow, but will I reach the levels I’m capable of without the right environment? Probably not. To get a more accurate picture of the type of growth you’re capable of, you need to be in an environment that fosters and values growth.
    How To Do Great Work
  • If great work is just good work done repeatedly, two questions need to be answered: How do you do good work? How do you do it consistently? The answer to both is simple: surround yourself with wizards.
    How To Do Great Work
  • What relative weight do you put on the way people conduct their work, versus the work product they generate?
    What To Care About In A Job
  • What would 1:1's be like with my direct manager? What types of topics would we discuss?
    What To Care About In A Job
  • What will separate someone who is good at this job from someone who is really stellar?
    What To Care About In A Job
  • Working for a growing company takes care of almost everything mentioned above. In a growing company, growing pains present themselves in the form of problems to solve and customers to please. Learning to solve these problems makes your work more important and more impactful. It also ensures that you experience personal growth (both skill, and people, related) which is critical for your career in the long-term.
    What To Care About In A Job
  • Work-life balance isn't as important as it's made out to be Having a work-life balance doesn't concern me. Perhaps it's because I'm early in my career and don't have too many other responsibilities, or perhaps it's because I've found something that I like to do, but I don't feel the need to draw a distinct line between work and life. Provided I have enough time to maintain my relationship and look after my body, I'm happy to spend the rest of my time working.
    What To Care About In A Job
  • Pressure: Similar to mentorship, when you’re in an environment with high-pressure and high-stakes, growth is inevitable. Pressure means someone is challenging you. You’re not just encouraged to keep up, but expected to. That’s a wonderful way to learn.
    On Living a Life of Purpose In Your 20's
  • mpact: It’s exceptionally difficult to turn up day after day and give it your all if you don’t feel like you’re making an impact. When you’re vested in what the company is trying to achieve, motivation becomes abundant and the potential to do great work increases significantly.
    On Living a Life of Purpose In Your 20's
  • Mentorship: When you’re in an environment where the people around you are better than you, you can’t help but improve, and do it quickly. In the early stages of a career, I don’t think there’s anything more valuable.
    On Living a Life of Purpose In Your 20's
  • If you want to fall in love again, it doesn’t help to tell yourself a story about how rare it is to find someone worthwhile. Instead, you have to keep believing in your own process of self-discovery and keep enjoying the folds of your mind. When you embrace all of the possibilities offered by the world and enjoy the endless potential for passion and joy within you, you stand out to other people who are trying to do the same thing. Just taking that leap and believing in joy is sometimes the most important step. This world is big and full of beauty. Keep reminding yourself of that, every day, an…
    ‘I Only Want to Date Men Who’ve Been Through Therapy!’