Hong Kong Design Book Club

8 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating

A UX designer who are passionate about books, cats and design. Experienced Korea, Japan and currently based in Hong Kong. Running a bi-monthly design book club in Hong Kong and started a broadcast to review design books

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Episodes

Reviewing "Designing Together" by Dan M.Brown

March 02, 2020 12:19 - 8 minutes - 15.3 MB

Even though I really enjoy my job, it can't be all happy and shiny every day. To be a better contributor on the team, we can recognise, diagnose, and deal with the conflicts and situations that we can experience on our daily work life. We are talking about designer's mindset, dogmatism, getting to No, and how to convert an unhealthy conflict into a healthy one.

Reviewing "Radical Focus" by Christina Wodtke

December 25, 2019 14:44 - 7 minutes - 13.2 MB

Many companies such as Zynga and Google use OKR to track progress and achieve objectives and many more are trying to introduce the metrics. Why people normally fail to achieve their goal and how OKRs can help focus on their objectives? I'll review this book and explain what is OKR, how to set and run it, and the common mistakes.

Reviewing "Thoughts on Design" by Paul Rand

October 06, 2019 13:15 - 7 minutes - 14 MB

Reviewing the essay written in 1947 by Paul Rand, one of the most iconic graphic designer in 20th century. We introduce who Paul Rand is, what is his standpoint in the history of graphic design, how he is influenced from the previous generation artists/critics such as John Dewey and Roger Fry.

Reviewing "The Design of Everyday Things" by Don Norman (Part 2)

September 18, 2019 11:25 - 9 minutes - 18.3 MB

This time we introduce various types of human errors - slips and mistakes and design principles to prevent them. Also, we discuss goals and applications of Human-centered Design and double diamond model, explain how design research and marketing research are different.

Reviewing "The Design of Everyday Things" by Don Norman (Part 1)

September 09, 2019 14:09 - 11 minutes - 21 MB

Reviewing one of the valuable book in design history, it introduces important design principles such as affordance, signifier, natural mapping, conceptual model, feedback and constraints, all based on deep understanding of human cognition.

Reviewing "Ruined by Design" by Mike Monteiro

July 09, 2019 11:47 - 14 minutes - 26.3 MB

We are not naive enough that Silicon Valley is going to make the world a better place, actually it turned out the opposite, designers ruined the world. We made people addictive and depressed for fundings and stock prices, and design education and hiring don't help. How can we fix the situation if it's not too late?

Books

The Design of Everyday Things

2 Episodes