Interactive on Charisse

NUS Telehealth Core

Tue, 01 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Overview

Since 2023, I’ve been a designer and researcher at the Telehealth Core of the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health at the National University of Singapore.

The Context:

Singapore is set to become a super-aged society by 2026, with 1 in 5 citizens aged 65 and above.
The average Singaporean suffers 10 years of ill health before death.
Healthcare systems and unpaid family caregivers are burdened, with informal caregiving for seniors valued at S$1.28 billion annually.

The Problem:

Jewellery Ecommerce on Mobile

Wed, 01 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Overview

I worked as a freelance product designer for a local jewellery store.

The business owners had just opened a new physical retail store. As they’d had success with social media sales in the past, they wanted to formalise their expansion to the online market through a native mobile app.

The Team

I was the sole designer, working with:

1 freelance developer
2 business owners

My Role

I led the design process from discovery to development, and managed communication between the developer and business owners.

Magic Moving Mansion Mania

Wed, 31 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Overview

The Challenge: We had four months to make a mobile game. I was the Design Lead in a team of six: two designers and four programmers.

The Goal: To design and build a lovable mobile action-puzzle-platformer for iOS and Android.

Outcome

Magic Moving Mansion Mania is a mobile action-puzzle-platformer for iOS and Android. It was conceptualised and created in four months under the Game Design Initiative at Cornell (GDIAC).

Anastasia is lost in a magical mansion where the rooms move in mysterious ways.

Establishing a Classical Pianist's Online Presence

Wed, 31 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Overview

My client, a classical pianist, wanted to establish her personal brand online.

I helped consolidate all her musical material in a website, which she would be able to manage herself using an intuitive, no-code editor. I also conducted a photoshoot with her to create essential visual content for her site.

Context

Even with her professional social media accounts, YouTube channel, and Spotify artist page, there was no single platform with a holistic overview of Clarisse’s practice as a classical pianist.

The Island Lodge Hotel Booking

Mon, 01 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Overview

The Challenge: A new boutique hotel needs a website. Their top priority: making sure customers can easily book rooms online.

The Goal: How might we best design a mobile website for this hotel, so that the room booking process is as smooth and quick as possible?

My Role

I was responsible for all research, design, and prototyping.

This was an individual academic project as part of my Professional Diploma in UX Design.

My Generated Valentine

Tue, 14 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Writing poetry with Tracery, a text-generation JS library

I’ve been playing around with Tracery recently: it’s a perfect casual creator tool, easy to pick up, simple, and powerful. I figured a valentine generator would be a fun little project, so I scribbled out some sentences one day, while procrastinating over something else.

🌹 Try it out here! Just refresh the page for new versions. 🌹

Code

Here’s the entire Tracery grammar that makes My Generated Valentine. It’s really simple, built around just a few sentence structures.