UX & Product Designer

Chi Wai Li



Finding the right E-mail service provider

We have a new project and we needs a good email service provider. After a bit of googling and reading up on a bunch of reviews like on ReadWriteWeb and awwwards our short list was as follows: YMLP MailChimp Campaign Monitor (CM) Since all three offered free trials up to a certain number of subscribers and sends, it […]

Text Expander and Alfred after 6 weeks

Here’s my quick review after 6 weeks of using both Text Expander and Alfred as recommended by Back to Work and Jacob Cass.. Alfred Thank you for speeding up my work flow! Previously if i wanted to open a new application, I would using spotlight (Set to list applications only) but it would take around 30 seconds to load […]

New Gems – PM tools and HTML frameworks

It’s been an exciting week for me. Please bear in mind I am rather geeky! Found a number of gems for my work – both in terms of Project Management tool and HTML frames works. First of all, I had a very clear winner for my hunt for a good project management tool out of […]

Project Management Tool

I have been testing a number of project management methods and tools for sometime. I’ve tried using my current note taking Apps: Evernote (Work related items) Spring Pad (Service no longer available) (Everything else) Catch (Food Diary) But as you can imagined it’s not really doing the trick, so I went on to try new […]

The amazing Twitter bootstrap toolkit

This is an amazing toolkit which can really speed up website development. I absolutely adore it. I’ve used a few frameworks and toolkits before.  This is by far one of the nicest I’ve used. Boilerplate is also good, very in depth but this is much more user friendly with good documentation and high level of […]

Testing new tools – Text Expander and Alfred

I’ve been listening to the Back to Work Podcast with Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin for sometime now, always interested to hear how to make more work better and more efficient, there’s so many handy advice in it. Not just on tech but also on being a better person. Highly recommended! but the problem with this show […]

Mac Vs PC

My baby that is my 17” macbook pro is being pushed to it’s limit lately. For cost reasons I’m considering switching back to PC. Previously a PC user, I’m fairly comfortable with using a Mac these days, but i don’t think it’ll take me too long to switch over… decisions decisions