Author: dineth
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Product development is like…
…driving a car. Sometimes, the path is clear. You can see far ahead. You can go fast.Other times, the road is windy. You have to take it slow.Some roads lead nowhere. Some are shortcuts. What’s important is to keep the destination in mind.And enjoy the ride.
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Looking for inspiration for illustrating a short story
First things first… I can’t attempt to make a graphic novel, no matter how short, without understanding what great looks like. Enrolled in the city library to explore its graphic novel selection. Some ideas I captured from Hilda… Use of colours to convey level on intensity/anger Conveying vastness Action sequences from multiple perspectives DC Comics…
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Learning to draw through rapid visualisation
I’ve started to do some research on techniques to do sketches and drawings on my iPad. Running through lots of YouTubes like this one: One of the interesting things about Procreate is its ability to draw in layers. All artists use techniques like this whether through tracing or letting oil paint dry layer at a…
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Time for a non-programming hobby
By the time 2018 ended, I was feeling really tired and demotivated. I spent a lot of my time slaving away at a computer from start to end on most days. I do believe that I achieved a lot during this period. However, this seemed to have come at the expense of personal relationships and…
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Do “basics” well
High performing teams are about interperson chemistry that is built on a foundation of the “basics”. Take sports for example. Learning to play a sport require you to learn the rules and develop basic skills to play. For soccer, it would be passing, tackling, lobbing and shooting. When you join a team, there’s drills, runs…
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Japan is amazing
It has been a long 1 ½ years as you can tell from the lack of my writing here. I poured all my effort into some very exciting work at Expedia. I needed a break. So my wife and I took 3 weeks off to visit Japan for the first time. It turned out to…
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This year, everything should go “Touch-first”
Happy 2017! I’ve been considering buying an iPad Pro. I’ve always felt that the iPad is an “in-between” device that can’t fit my life well. But there is proof that the desktop is getting… deprecated. Here’s a good article from The Verge that talks about it. Is it time to transition over? By the end…
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Can diversity help your company?
ReplyAll is an awesome podcast from Gimlet. For those who listened to “Startup”, this is Gimlet’s second podcast. Couple of weeks back, they put out a show about diversity. There were some interesting insights shared during the show. (start at 11:50 for the diversity story) ReplyAll – #52 Raising the bar (more notes on the website)…
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Thought provoking remarks from Jony Ive
Found this great video on YouTube where Jonny Ive is talking about a modern design problem: It is quite interesting to think about how a fan looks like a fan, because it has to be, to fulfil its functionality. Or a chair, a bench, a cup etc. Devices that has an embedded microchips often doesn’t…