Tommy Ng - Freelance Web Designer, Malaysia

05/10/2019

This is a declaration of love for personal websites, written from years of thinking on the subject, reviewing thousands of portfolios, building websites for friends and bookmarking those of strangers. It’s a subject I’m so passionate about, I built my business on it. And recently, it’s become ...

27/07/2019

Essay on the benefits of performant software, and how it affects user perception of engineering quality and overall usability

07/07/2019

From Brooklyn Brewery bottles to the Jean Georges menu, Milton Glaser’s logos are all over the city. He’s not even thinking of retiring.

04/07/2019

Digital products are competing for users’ limited attention. The modern economy increasingly revolves around the human attention span and how products capture that attention.

03/08/2018

“It’s key to recognize, though, that this is a choice, a responsibility, and — ultimately — a matter of respect.”

My home computer in 1998 had a 56K modem connected to our telephone line; we were allowed a maximum of thirty minutes of computer usage a day, because my parents — quite reasonably — did not want to have their telephone shut off for an evening at a time. I remember webpages loading slowly: ten [...

24/05/2018

Apple’s dramatically redesigned App Store got a decent amount of attention when it debuted last year with iOS 11, but its unique success as a hybrid of product design and editorial design has gone …

29/01/2018

Most of us want to look good online, need a website, maybe even a logo. More and more individuals and organizations are discovering that they need to hire a professional. It comes down to doing your homework. Be clear with...

12/10/2017

A lesson in empathy.

The subtle design choices that nobody talks about

11/09/2017

In an eyetracking experiment comparing different clickability clues, weak and flat signifiers required more user effort than strong ones.

24/08/2017

Disconnection can be good.

10/08/2017

More comfortable online than out partying, post-Millennials are safer, physically, than adolescents have ever been. But they’re on the brink of a mental-health crisis.

20/07/2017

Learn anything with hand curated mind maps.