Michael Yap

It's a joy (and relief) to launch my portfolio site: michaelryap.com

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

Portfolio in progress

Portfolio in progress

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

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

Portfolio in progress

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

@Penkej Fair enough 😁

@michaelryap I should probably mention I didn't finish it 🤣 not because the book is bad or anything, I just suck at finishing books

Executive storytelling is a valuable design skill

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

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

@michaelryap It's definitely a super skill! Read Pitch Anything by Oren Klaff recently, it's a must read.

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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]gmail.com

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)

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)

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

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.

How interactive experiences draw from Muybridge's invention of the zeotrope 🧵🧵 Interactive experiences are dynamic — they sense, compute, and react.