UX & Product Designer

Chi Wai Li



Weekly top 5 #34 – Zombie food, Pocket and drawing

Hello boys and girls, How are we this week? Hong Kong is FINALLY getting cooler, which of course makes me just that little bit less grumpy. Rather hard to believe Christmas isn’t actually that far away One List: Who You Should Eat (if you become a zombie) A rather hilarious and cleverly thought out “menu”. The […]

Weekly top 5 #33 – Babies, Drawing and Shutting Up

One Law: “Nine women can’t make a baby in one month” – Brooks’s Law A software engineering theory from Fred Brooks that “adding manpower to a late software project makes it later”. Now if only more clients can understand this truth.   One Tweet Sometimes you’ve got to shut up, swallow your pride and accept that you’re wrong. […]

Weekly top 5 #30 – Buckets, Hermits and Death

One Quote “You can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into” – Bad Science by Ben Goldacre One Long Read The Strange Tale of the North Pond Hermit There’s something about this article that fascinates me, a man decided to isolate himself from society for 20+ years, living in the woods and stealing […]

Weekly top 5 #25 – Sleeping well and GOOD banner ads

One Clever Ad Actually useful banner ads from Post-it notes’!!  If you are anything like me, you hate the majority of banner ads, I know they are a necessary evil to continue to keep the web free, but I still don’t like them – EXCEPT for this very very clever one One Article Silicon Valley Is […]

Weekly top 5 #23 – F**k You. Pay Me, SEO and a very serious matter

One Powerful Article: Some Practical Thoughts on Suicide This is a topic very close to my heart, I have personally spent a frightening amount of time considering suicide, I’ve rarely spoken about this out of shame. I was convinced the world is better without me. I’ve even spent 3 days deciding on the exact method and […]

Weekly Top 5 #22 – 4th May 2015

One Podcast: Zen Foudner: Raising Entrepreneurial Kids Although I do not yet have any kids, I do think about our current education system a lot and I don’t mean just what kids are taught in school, it really should start from the home and it should be FUN, another fantastic podcast. http://zenfounder.com/episodes/09-raising-entrepreneurial-kids/ One Video: ASAP […]

Weekly Top 5 #20 – 12th Apr 2015

One Slide deck: 10 Startup business Puzzles Visualised through the Platform Stack What is a platform in terms of the startup world? Why does some platform do better than others? “How Airbnb beat Craigslist”, “How Youtube and Vimeo continue to coexist” and “Why Medium is so powerful for writers” [slideshare id=45932835&doc=platformthinkinglabsstartupbusinesspuzzles-150317060126-conversion-gate01] One Font for Designers: […]

Weekly Top 5 #19 – 6th Apr 2015

One Video: Building Habit Forming Products We are creatures of habits, habits allow us to think less with our conscious mind and rely on our subconscious to function, good products allow us to form habits around them, this video shows you that works. One Witty Audio Essay: Lazy: A Manifesto A funny, intelligent and insightful essay on being […]

Jonah Lehrer: The Origins of Creative Insight & Why You Need Grit

Author of Imagine Jonah Lehrer share with 99% what it takes to be creative and how grit and hard work is just as important as finding inspiration. He talks of what we should do to find those Ah-Ha moments, how companies can learn from cities and how persistance and love is the only way forward. An inspiring […]