User Centric Design, User Experience Design, Usability, Interaction Design, SEO, Hong Kong, China internet
In a meeting today, TG was told information architecture was not necessary in building a website. My first response is: “Yes you can, only if you want to build a useless site which cannot be found by your target users and search engines”. Try google and find books in information architecture, user research and SEO, you can [...]
TG met a couple of Hong Kong bloggers few days ago in a local coffee shop 茶餐廳. Unlike the modern setting of Starbucks or Pacific Coffee which sell tall-size coffee at HK$30-40 each, we chat and sat under a big ceiling fan, ordering set meals which serve with milk tea, ice coffee and Hong Kong-style dishes. We paid only about the same price and spent three [...]
Standing in the middle of the room is two groups of my teammates. TG at Kelikuru.com and my teammates are in heated debate discussing the usage of breadcrumb in a project. Team A on the left suggests that the navigation tool’s primary purpose is to show the path from Home to where the users are now. It’s a “You are here” indicator, helps users move one [...]
Kelikuru.com is 嘰哩咕嚕, a Chinese term basically means rumbling. The idea comes across TG's mind while watching a cartoon show on TV few years ago. We walk through our life,day by day ; speak to many people, known or unknown, year after year and we may not notice that there are so many wonderful things passing by. Writing a blog can literally leave my foot-prints in the internet world, help me keep the memory. At this moment, a big chunk of my life is closely aligned with user-centric design, user research, web-based environment both in Hong Kong and China. Perhaps I may not be like that tomorrow, I may be in other setting, have nothing to do with usability, but who knows what's going to happen next?