Writing
UI design, design systems, front-end workflow and growing in this creative career. Practical tips, lessons learned the hard way, and honest notes along the way.
- Oct 2026Why I built Lumio, and why I built it with ExpoA daily ice breaker question at work turned into a quiet little ritual, and then into an iPhone app. Here is where Lumio came from and why I chose Expo to build it.
- Feb 202434 life lessons I’ve learned in 34 yearsWritten on my birthday: lessons from 34 years, to help you reflect on your own.
- Jan 2024Reflecting on 2023: a bullet journal summaryBack to writing, and hoping to stay consistent this time. Like everything I do, it starts from my bullet journal.
- Jan 2023Embracing the challenges of building another side projectA new year and another side project: what I ran into building it, and why you should start yours.
- Dec 2022Reflecting on 2022: a bullet journal summaryLooking back on the year through bullet journaling, a hobby I’ve come to love.
- Dec 2022Why is writing beneficial to a UI designer?If you’re like me, you don’t enjoy writing. I still think it’s a skill every designer should have.
- Dec 2022An ending is a new beginning: my self-reflection after quittingA year after leaving a three-year job, here’s what I learned.