Doubling as a ever-evolving reference manual, this site also chronicles my journey to master user experience design with its occasional successes, plenty of blunders, and typical muddling around.
I hope to encourage others not to be afraid of embarking on the exciting field that is UX design.
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About the author:
Irvin Fong
Drawing from an early age, Irvin got sucked into web design in middle school when he wanted to customize his shop in the addictive craze that was Neopets. He could spend hours reading about and learning how to code with HTML and CSS and making fun pictures in Photoshop. While getting his computer science degree at UC San Diego, Irvin decided to try his hand at graphic design and also discovered user experience design (alas, in his senior year).
For a while, he tried to reconcile his various interests in art, design, light coding, and foreign languages. A few years later, he’s come back to user experience design and is excited to get to know all about the nefarious pains and frustrations that plague users in these days– in English as well as French!
Irvin has to occasionally remind himself of the core tenet of user experience design– “You are not the user”– because his design and coding background make him want to just straight to starting design layouts and coding it up. What beauty may spring forth from a few clicks and drags with a pen tool or lines of text!
Fortunately, curious (and chatty) by nature, Irvin loves to get to know people. Others may find talking about someone’s job or hobbies in detail boring. Not Irvin. To him, these discussions are portals into rich and complex world that would otherwise offer but a fleeting glimpse, incomplete and quickly forgotten. Who knew this inquisitive nature would pay off one day?
