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OK before I go ahead and make any insightful comments. All of you need to know this popular mobile app: Mo Mo. (Chinese name, 陌陌). It could be directly translated as “strange strange”. And it’s a location based sex hookup software (tho it’s not explicitly explained on their website). Go ahead and download this app […]
April 27, 2010
This article is about an reflection on a user experience design of a popular Chinese chatting software – QQ. I think UX experts can learn from about International digital products business development and culture barrier issues by studying their case. QQ has proven to be the best chatting software among all existing ones(it has the […]
March 5, 2010
When I studied Graphic Design in Yale University, my professor told me a universal truth: “When you choose a career path the primary thing is figure out if you would enjoy the details.” I realized at a young age that I don’t enjoy choosing typefaces among a thousand of options, so I quit graphic design. […]
December 11, 2009
If anybody cares, I haven’t access my blog, facebook, twitter, IM and any other social media for exactly one month. During this period I asked myself one single question: what does humanity really mean today on the web? What is the biggest challenge here for the next generation’s user experience design?… One month ago my […]
September 25, 2009
Many facts suggest that you should marry to a designer. First, designer are smart and constantly optimizing user experiences in their lives. Today designers are no longer artist, almost all of them are tech-savvy and bright. They like solving problems- so they are fully capably of fixing pipes for you; they are curious about everything […]
April 6, 2009
Recently I’m attending CHI at Boston. I got a chance to hang out with my high school friends who happen to attend harvard and MIT here. I’m happy to find my best friends are way more successful than I do – I’m impressed that they(who used to be my crappy highschool mates)becomes the leader of […]
April 1, 2009
I gave a talk about future web trends the other day, here’s a link for the original Vimeo video: Design or Die – Innovation, UCD, Web and Life (Mozilla Labs Design Challenge: Spring 09) from Mozilla Labs – Concept Series on Vimeo. I listed four themes for the future web, they are: 1. Data. Open, […]
February 4, 2009
As I always love design challenges, here’s the email I received from my adviser, I’m glad to know it finally becames a course project, which I originally wanted to do here in basic interaction design class I TAed last semester. “Dear CMU designers, Mozilla, the organization behind the Firefox web browser, has just announced the […]
December 12, 2008
I searched “wei zhou” in live search, pretty much just for curiosity, then this result pops out first: Buy Wei. You may get 8% off with PalPal if eligible. – eBay…Wei Zhou, an interaction designer, currently pursuing her master degree in Carnegie Mellon… I wonder how this could happen! Also, here’s a recent poster for […]
November 13, 2008
This story can only happen in Carnegie Mellon University. I always love CMU over Yale, because CMU promotes team work, I can work with people from different backgrounds here, where designers, psychologists, MBA students, HCI researchers and computer scientists get together, and we work with real clients all the time. I’m a way happier than […]
November 5, 2008
I haven’t updated my blog for a while. The FLU is really killing me. I just got to know there’re different kinds of FLUs, and I am the lucky person who is got attacked by more than one. But nothing can stop me doing fun stuff. These are screen shots for my recent project “Digital […]
September 21, 2008
I’m recently obsessed with human identity, perception and self-expression. In Stacie’s course ‘ Information and interaction’, I proposed to do a 6 weeks project naming “Digital Self”. The goal is quite simple: Explore the difference between your real self in the society and your digital self on the Internet. The method is even simpler: by […]
September 2, 2008
Actually I like Google products over a lot of others. But there’s something out there makes me not a big fan of it. Eventually I cannot endure it anymore and decide to write something. I think Google, being considered as one of the leading software companies in the world, has the responsibility to make their […]
August 27, 2008
I have been using iPhone for three weeks now. Here’s a normal iPhone user daily schedule. 7:00 AM: iPhone Alarm wakes me up 7:01 AM: Check facebook, twitter, mySpace, Blog, School email, Gmail, company email, open MC chats, log into msn and AIM, Gmail, skype(wifi), IRC(wifi).Quickly check TODO. 7:05 AM: Fully wake up. Hold iPhone […]
August 5, 2008
My internship ends at Aug 23th, meaning officially I only have 15 days to contribute to Firefox. I will continue working as a contributor for Mozilla at school, so anybody needs a UI designer, a flash AS coder, a web designer or a CG artist and dev, ping me “Wei”on IRC or email me at […]
July 7, 2008
MISSION Welcome to lifestream!The goal is to find a cool way to organize history and bookmarking for the next-generation browser.Obviously those mock-ups are not good enough, that’s why I put it up here and I welcome all kinds of criticism.If you have any valuable suggestions, leave me a comment, I’ll visualize the idea for you, […]
June 27, 2008
Introduction Firefox 3 is undoubtedly a very good browser for now, but in order to keep the top of the game in a long run, it is very necessary to explore the new possibilities for next generation’s of web browser. We noticed there’re some hot trendy topics in interaction community, we assume those thoughts could […]
June 25, 2008
I am going to prepare two presentations on the Summit. One is about next generation’s web browser, the other one is about user research on web browsers. I copied the wiki text here and today I need to come up a plan. History & Future: Imagining the web browser of 2015 [faaborg, wei] size: 100-200 […]
June 19, 2008
Belzner introduced us this website today: http://www.ideashower.com/ideas/launched/read-it-later/ Indeed.Organizing bookmarks is one of the worst things I’d like to do by myself – I do need a artificial intelligent existence to do this for me – it is a tedious, boring and disgusting user experience for our human beings. For firefox 3, the awesome bar is […]
June 13, 2008
What do I plan to do? Continue brainstorming the ideas for future web browsers Conduct 2 surveys to understand the pain point of using bookmarks and URL bar. Conduct a survey to know how smart a web browser can go based on current user’s understanding of browsers. 3 visualizations or static mock-ups of my favorite […]
June 13, 2008
What do I plan to do? Brainstorming for future web browsers. What did I do? 35 sketches on paper, 22 sketches on computer. Feedbacks: 1. Good sketches 2. For next stage, focus on 4 important topics Keyboard UI Bookmark management and history management URL bar, search bar and awesome bar integration Infinite scrolling solution 3. […]
June 11, 2008
iCompass tells you the best time to call your friends or family members Neverland is a device for people to collect their favorite places and build their own “favplace”museum Goal for this class: Design two applications, one about time, one about space. These are my solutions. Due to limited time, I’ll upload the flash interaction […]
April 4, 2012
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