Posts tagged Shanghai

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Timelapse scene of Shanghai seen from the Bund overlooking the busy Huangpu River and the Pudong financial district on the other side.
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Shot using iPhone mounted on gorilla pod.

Photos of Designing Shanghai Workshop

Organized by TechYizu, Designing Shanghai was the first prototype of User eXperience design challenge event in Shanghai, held on November 5th, 2011. 

The UX-DAY was a full day event in which participants are encouraged to tackle various design challenge around the city, from navigating the unique cultural phenomenon at Shanghai marriage market to road safety issues, from shopping experience to services at Chinese hospital, etc. 

There was a good mix of turnouts from both local and foreign talents, including the 11 year old boy wonder, Gilbert Chan a.k.a. the robot maker, as the youngest participant.

I was involved as part of the organizing committee with TechYizu,  as well as team facilitator/mentor on the d-day. My team, 上海民工 (Shanghai Worker), choose to tackle a design challenge that cover the UX in Chinese Hospital. Here’s the presentation deck that the team put online and was chosen as Slide of The Day on Slideshare.

All in all, it was fantastic day! Not too shabby at all as first event prototype, kudos to all mates at TechYizu for making it happen! So lookout for more awesome UX happenings in Shanghai in the very near future!


Short time-lapse video of @techyizu UX-Day: DesignINg Shanghai workshop - http://t.co/UDpcSnY6

Awesome Zootrope of Toy Story Characters seen at Pixar 25 Years Anniversary Exhibition at MoCA Shanghai - See video here.

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Timelapse video of an evening at TianZiFang, Shanghai, shot using iPhone 4 mounted on gorilla-pod.

If you curious on how to build a real Starship, see http://t.co/B6yQ7HRI 

10 Things I (Will) Miss About Living in Shanghai

These are some (personal) random list of things that made my life in Shanghai comfortable and, at certain points, even very much enjoyable. Despite the fact that sometimes one has to (ahem) have a wee bit deeper pocket to enjoy certain privileges, I still find them worth every penny. All the good things about Shanghai certainly outweigh all the day-to-day silliness that one has to put up with from time to time. Well, what can I say, no place is perfect. Surprisingly enough, it wasn’t easy for me to simply condensed a 6+ years period of living in Shanghai down to mere ten things. I need to left out a lot of things, so feel free to add your two cents if you want. For what it’s worth, here’s my own list of what I (would) miss about living in Shanghai.


**Disclaimer: I understand that these lists might be seen as very 外国人-centric and therefore a bit myopic (and shallow), but I couldn’t help it and I will not apologize for it. Some of them are simple things that I found comforting and at times reminded me of home (read: food for picky people like me). 


See here for the complete list…

PVG ✈ ICN ✈ LAX: Time travel back in time! Goodbye China GFW, I’ll soon be in the land where internet tastes like tacos!


Lunch break with the art team of Trigger (Shanghai), at the Liyuan park across the office. A short picnic under the scorching heat…. Fun times!

AWESOME futuristic and green design of Shanghai International Cruise Terminal by Sparch Architects. Read more about it here.

Sunny Monday in Shanghai, viewed from the 23rd floor… 

Sunny Monday in Shanghai, viewed from the 23rd floor… 

Insightful Slide Decks and Reports on Consumer Behaviour in China http://bit.ly/h9DOQi

• Snowy Shanghai •

The Aussie in me hates winter. Then again, if it’s cold, might as well make it pretty, no? All these photographs were taken using my iPhone 4 until my fingers went numb. 

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These sets of photos also published on the Shanghaiist.com site, by the way.

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Sunny day… • Taken somewhere south from here…

Sunny day…

• Taken somewhere south from here…