Hello, Ted/Xingtai Here -
I am a contemplator standing at the intersection of design and data science from Shenzhen, China. I am currently a Master of Design student with a Graduate Certificate in Data Science at University of California, Berkeley.
About My Name
My name in Chinese literally means "Starry✨ Mountains🗻"
黃
Huáng
星
Xīng
泰
Tài
My Design Hippocratic's Oath
Good design should not only be usable, useful, and delightful, it should be, above all, ethical. Sometimes we have to fulfill a business goal and create "Dark Patterns" that facilitate the users into our desired outcomes. Never use trickery, coercion or exaggeration to persuade, and always inform the users of the risk and provide them choices to opt-out.
Ethical
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Inclusive
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Who is included? Who is excluded? I always care about how a feature or a large system can serve a broader population beyond the MVP personas. It helps us to build a more welcoming world for those who are underrepresented, the physically challenged, the LGBTQIA groups, people with dyslexia, etc.
Think and design for the future. As designers, always bear in mind that the world is changing in flux, so are our users, contexts, and markets. What we discovered in the user research today is built on the past, so we have to envision different possible future scenes, and bring the most preferable one to the present.