I came across this pretty nifty light-weight prototyping tool Pencil on the weekend. If you follow my del.icio.us bookmarks (as seen on homepage), you would’ve caught it earlier. I have been busy with finishing up the end little bits of the OS project and catching up with school readings so I haven’t had the chance [...]

My friend was over earlier this morning to pick up some stuff and we started talking about the poor UI in your typical financial and business applications (even the very thoroughly researched Bloomberg terminal). There so much innovations yet to be done in these applications, and it’s much easier to get people to pay up [...]

The new website design has now been published! The old design had a somewhat of a elegant feel to it, but it wasn’t very photo-friendly. With this new design its kind of a fusion of swiss and web 2.0.
What I mean by swiss is really the exclusive use of Arial and Helvetica throughout the design [...]

Now that the new TWSA website has been delivered (with SEO, Facebook, Gravatar, all that fun and cool stuff), it is time for me to move on to… redoing this website. I already sort of have the design drawn up from a long time ago. I just haven’t had the time to start coding the [...]

As of this morning, my patent application (as the sole inventor) has been officially submitted with the United States Patents and Trademarks Office! I’m super excited that this was all done before I end my work term here at Business Objects. As some of you may know, this idea was originally thought of a few [...]

I went out and picked a shiny new western digital my book hard drive today since it is on sale at Future Shop. We use the older version of this external drive at work and I really like it because it is really quiet and has an auto on-off feature to make sure you get [...]

This email made its way to my inbox today. I almost had a heart attack when I saw it.

And don’t cheat with one of those font analysers on the web!

The School of Computer Science is running a logo design contest with the top prize of $600 and runner-up prizes of $200. You can see the CS logo contest website for more details about this.
I like how they also have stated there is a possibility that no logos would be selected if there are no [...]