Michael Yap

Former Product Design @etsy · @TheWebbyAwards Winner · Former faculty @svaixd @CACollegeofArts ·

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It's a joy (and relief) to launch my portfolio site: https://t.co/vZrYRDyqMQ

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Design has two essential purposes: to create products and services that enrich our lives, and to establish and nurture trust between users and the brands behind them #designedfortrust

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Portfolio in progress

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Portfolio in progress

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One measure of a digital designer is if their work still exists on the Internet 1–, 5–, 10-years from when it launched and if it still looks good and performs well

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Yes, Figma is powered by AI, but sometimes all you really need to design interactive experiences are boxes-and-arrows (and Helvetica)

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Portfolio in progress

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Abilities to size objects according to numeric values and guides have made Google Drawings a serious collaboration tool for designers

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@Penkej Fair enough 😁

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Executive storytelling is a valuable design skill

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"We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training" —Archilochus

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@Penkej Right on, I'm reserving a copy!

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@KierstenSlader Hello! Out of the blue, but, our work paths briefly crossed when I was designing for IGN and wonder if we might connect — I am doing some research creating a case study for my portfolio and I could use a hand 🙏🙏 mchl.yp[at]https://t.co/YYBroseugo

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That is, for any given design problem, the formulation of many potential solutions, the selection of the best candidate evaluated according to the governing laws of composition and convention, and rejection of the rest (2/2)

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If you observe a product designer at work their actions might appear loose and fast, but in reality they are engaged in a series of making one decision after another according to a complex process of formulation, selection, and rejection (1/2)

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Luckily, designers have to perform the same amount of work to design apps and websites, rather, we design several key views and rely on code to animate the experience

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How interactive experiences draw from Muybridge's invention of the zeotrope 🧵🧵

Interactive experiences are dynamic — they sense, compute, and react.

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Disney’s first full-length feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, consisted of approximately 120,000 views (or frames in film lingo) that were drawn and painted by hand by a team of 32 animators.