Nice to meet you, my name is Calvin Chun-yu Chan. I’m a web-app engineer and designer by trade, with curious and enthusiastic eyes on design, usability, and culture and creativity.
About This Blog
Observing design stories in everyday objects and experiences has been my biggest passion for a long time. There are very much details in a lot of things we encounter every single day, which often make me smile, grin, frown, or burst out laughing. I would like to document and share these thoughts on my blog, and invite you to join the conversation.
About Me
My other passion is Design, particularly in graphic, typography, illustration, industrial and product design. One of my favourite activity is sketching and doodling in a local cafe during weekend afternoons. While computer stores data in bits and bytes, I believe that my mind works with pictures and stories.
I am currently in Japan for a year-long working holiday, where I am constantly looking for inspirations, cultural observations, and connection with local communities in preparation for my UX career. To be a successful designer, it’s the best being in different countries, listening to stories of the local people, and living in the local ways.
Before coming to Japan, I was a Bioinformatics Software Developer at Centre for Microbial Diseases and Immunity Research, University of British Columbia. One of my major involvement is www.innatedb.ca, which is published in Molecular Systems Biology 4:218.
You can contact me at hello@calvin-c.com. For more means of contact, please visit the Contact page.
Publication Reference
Lynn DJ, Windsor GL, Chan C, Laird MR, Breuer K, Foroushani AK, Lo R, Naseer M, Sribnaia A, Yau M Hancock REW, Brinkman FSL. Facilitating Systems Biology Approaches to Studying Mammalian Innate Immunity. Keystone Symposium: Innate Immunity: Mechanisms Linking with Adaptive Immunity, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. 7th-12th June 2010.
David J Lynn, Geoffrey L Winsor, Calvin Chan, Nicolas Richard, Matthew R Laird, Aaron Barsky, Jennifer L Gardy, Fiona M Roche, Timothy H W Chan, Naisha Shah, Raymond Lo, Misbah Naseer, Jaimmie Que, Melissa Yau, Michael Acab, Dan Tulpan, Matthew D Whiteside, Avinash Chikatamarla, Bernadette Mah, Tamara Munzner, Karsten Hokamp, Robert E W Hancock & Fiona S L Brinkman InnateDB: facilitating systems-level analyses of the mammalian innate immune response. Molecular Systems Biology 4:218. 2nd September 2008
