Design Dairy

2025
The VIP Room

Trying a new working process to create a quick and smooth animation in SketchUp without any 3d-party rendering engine.

 SketchUp

  • Apply PBR materials and HDRI environments
  • Hide edges and enable Ambient Occlusion in Style
  • Export 1080p 30fps animation

 After Effects

  • Change composition frame rate to 60fps
  • Turn on Enable Frame Blending of all layers
  • Export and done ✌️
SketchUp 2025

This is the 20th year since I started using SketchUp. Today I played with the newly released SketchUp 2025 for 2 hours. The new PBR materials and HDRI environments are great, almost don’t need to spend time on rendering for a quicker and more realistic view of the scene. Well done fellow SketchUp. 👍

2024
Team Reflection 2024

This year I tried a few Gen-AI tools for work and for fun, be it text-to-audio, text-to-image, or image-to-video, they are very productive and creative to a designer. The most interesting one is the game intro video that I made for the year-end team reflection, images and voices are generated from Gen-AI tools and I only need to edit them on After Effects. It’s really fun!

2023
Managers as coaches

Complete an amazing course. Key takeaway – asking employees questions instead of providing solutions, asking question about process instead of details, facilitating employees instead of judging them.

Design with Data – Midjourney

Previously I spent fair amount of time designing illustration for presentation, those days are gone with Midjourney’s imagination ability. Now I can really focus more time thinking about the topic itself. Time saving. 👍

Midjourney testing

I’m impressed with Midjourney’s quality and speed. It would take me hours to make these, but with AI now, I can get them in just seconds ⚡️

Coaster making

Made a coaster with 🌻 pattern. My wife said it looks like plants vs zombies, haha…

2022
Clay figurine

Making a clay figurine with son on Sunday ☀️

Completion of my NUS course


It was 7 months ago that I started this data science course. I almost spent all my past weekends studying probability, simulation, decision trees, predictive analysis and other topics related to data-driven decision making. As a designer it is a challenging but worthwhile progress.

Stay curious and keep learning new things. 😎

2021
It’s a Candle Making Day 🕯🕯

Practical Decision Making Using Data Science

From today till the following 6 months, I’ll be studying Practical Decision Making Using Data Science by NUS Business School Executive Education.

I’ve been keen on learning Data Science since 2 years ago. While WFH, It’s a good timing to have a systematic study on it and I can’t wait to open the door to explore the charm of Data Science! 🤟

Singapore Good Design Award

We’ve won an award of Singapore Good Design (SGMARK) 2021! 😄

So proud of the team !

Tried something new today – draw on a tote bag! 🎨

Happy Valentine’s Day 2021 🌹

Continue… More tiny models.

Having some fun with paper clay

2020
Got this gift from DBS. Time flies – 5 years!

A wooden world map

I spent 4 hours assembling this wooden world map on my bedhead. The result is quite satisfying. 😀

Building my first terrarium 🍀

Happy Valentine’s Day 2020! 🌹

2019
A lovely vase

Made this little vase in the creative day. It’s so interesting that the clay model becomes pottery at temperatures about 1000 F. My wife loves it very much.

2018
The first UX project in 2018


The wireframe shows the concept of celebrating the 1st anniversary of a user who joined the bank with some fun analysis and report of user’s spending habits.

2017
Joined a two-day workshop to make a simple AR scene.

Learn to program a bot today! 🤖

2016
Testing the new drawing pad. Let’s draw a flower 🌺