Monthly Archives: January 2010
Nokia in 2015
As we have just entered a new decade, Nokia released a video with their vision on the future of modern life, based on two major technology development: total personal data storage on the Internet (a.k.a. Cloud Computing) and mobile devices. They believe that within five years, our lives will be more connected to the Internet then ever, where most of our activities will be recorded digitally in multiple dimensions: time, location, social connection, context…etc. See the video here: Thoughts: Again, two major terms: cloud computing and ubiquitous Internet access. Cloud Computing: I am not an advocate of this term, because [...]
One Giant Experience
source: Seattle Municipal Archives This article “Short course in customer experience” from Good Experience managed to boil down the fuzzy big buzzword Customer Experience to two points: Your customer/user/visitor is a human being. Your customer only sees and evaluates your service as one giant experience. As a software developer and a tech geek, I often pay more attention to the technology in many services that I touch everyday: online banking, iPhone apps, point card at grocery stores and gas station, security issues…etc. Sometimes I would look very closely to the visual design as well. This article reminds me not to [...]
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X’mas Card 2009
A fun little mindmap I drew while designing the X’mas card back in December ’09. Turns out the mindmap sketch is more interesting than the actual card, so I decided to share with you here.
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New Year Thoughts
After a couple weeks of radio silence due to the X’mas and new year holiday, I’m now back to my regular work and blogging and inspiration hunting business. Looking back to 2009, it was a year that seeded some long due changes that are always on my mind but never have the initiative to execute. There are a few particular events that triggered that, namely: Feb: Interaction’09, IxDA in Vancouver Feb: Emily Carr application, submitting portfolio May: Evernote (hard to believe right? but Evernote can really be a life-changing tool) June: OpenWeb Vancouver in Vancouver Nov: UF’09, UPAChina in Nanjing [...]
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My name is Calvin Chun-yu Chan, also known as カルビー or Jeepu. I'm a web app developer by trade, with curious and enthusiastic eyes on design, usability, culture and creativity.
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