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the way 沿途

I joined this program by DBCS in the past 3 months, I like the diversity of the content it covered. My favourite session is the vertical development. I feel that something has shifted in the way I think, although it's difficult to pinpoint exactly what has changed.

It feels like less learning new skills and more like upgrading my internal operating system. The way I interpret situations, navigating ambiguity, and approach complex challenge has shifted, even if I'm still discovering exactly how that change is showing up in my daily work and life.

Created a set of cute monster house in just two simple steps:

• Midjourney: Generate an outlined image of monster house
• ChatGPT: Color it

Takeaway:

• What I like about Gen-AI tools: Quick and unlimited outputs
• What I don’t like about Gen-AI tools: Almost can't get rid of it nowadays, but I don't think it's a good sign...

Production ideas:

Another creative weekend work - drafting a concept of our upcoming design event.

Made a short video of a steampunk skull using ComfyUI at weekend. Its’s a super powerful tool.

Happy Labour Day! I spent the holiday playing with a new tool - D5 Render. Very easy to hands on, in addition, with the latest Nvidia RTX 5090, it only takes 1 min and 40 secs to render a 10-sec 1080p 60fps video. Super fast!⚡️

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 ✌️

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

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!

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.

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. 👍

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 ⚡️

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

Making a clay figurine with son on Sunday ☀️

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. 😎

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! 🤟

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

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.

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.