孩子问你“为什么要努力学习”，你会怎么回答她？
1 我和熊妈小时候的家庭教育，几乎就是两个极端。 我家里因为家庭风格比较奇葩，基本家长属于那种对于学习不闻不问的风格，考试成绩也基本不怎么关心，不会像有的家长那样看到考试分数就欲仙欲死（正常的形容词）。记得有一次我高一时考数学考了个7分，满分100分，直接把试卷藏起来了事。为了以防万一，我还在“7”后面加了个“9”……...
View ArticleA perfect pot or 50 pounds pots?
Read a story in the book Lean UX which is so good that I can't wait to share. The story came from the YouTube video, Why You Need to Fail – by Derek Sivers. A ceramics class teacher divided the class...
View ArticleWhat does ‘senior’ mean to a designer?
I met Michael, the digital product designer at Movio and had a great conversation this Monday. I got heaps of career advice from him (thank you Michael), and he also inspired me to start thinking a...
View Article印度的孩子比中国孩子强？因为他们的父母做到了这件事……
1. 女儿游泳课上的发现：印度爸爸的小动作 每个周六的上午，我都有一项例行工作：带着女儿 Molly 去上游泳课。新西兰是个四面环海的国家，游泳也是一项非常基本的技能，特别是在这里出生的小孩，4-5 岁不但已经会游泳，还有很多已经去上冲浪课了。所以，给孩子上游泳课，越早越好。Molly 是从 6-7 个月时开始上游泳课的。...
View Article好好学英语，可能是你对孩子教育做出的最重要决定
1. 要不要学英语？ 要不要学英语？这个问题几乎每隔一段时间就必然会成为网络热议话题。前段时间因为 “富二代” 王思聪和 “穷二代” 花千芳的微博互撕，“学英语” 又第 N 次成为网络热点。 花千芳的“英语无用论”引起了网络热议 2019年3月，花千芳在新浪微博上发微博表示学英语无用，且语言西化会导致思维西化。该言论立即遭到王思聪驳斥，随即两人互相通过微博进行攻击。该辩论一度登上新浪微博热搜。...
View ArticleWhat my design process taught me
I'm a designer, and my Bachelor degree is B.S (Bachelor of Science). My primary subject at the university was Applied Physics. So the most frequently asked question in my professional career is 'how...
View Article我们的孩子再也看不到巴黎圣母院了？
最近世道非常不太平，新西兰的恐怖袭击刚刚结束不久，法国的巴黎圣母院 (Notre Dame) 也遭遇了大火，其中很大一部分被彻底损毁。这是一座代表了巴黎这座城市的建筑，它遭遇大火牵挂了全世界很多吃瓜群众们的心，也在我们的朋友圈里面刷屏。今天狗熊想和你聊一聊巴黎圣母院，但实际上我想聊的可能和大家在最近几天看到的一些帖子的文章的观点，有着很大的不同。 伟大建筑的逝去提醒我们保持谦卑...
View ArticleWhat did I learn from my first freelance UX role?
As an 11-year experienced designer, I was involved in 100+ projects as a designer…when I was in China. But it is a different chapter to become a designer in New Zealand, a country speaks a different...
View Article作为父母，如何才能挤出时间做点自己的事？
1. 老张的一天 早上 6 点半被闹钟闹醒，虽然孩子一夜睡得很好也没吵闹，但老张觉得像是没睡一样。昨晚临睡前刷剧，本想是为了放松，结果在床上翻来覆去半天没能睡着。老张醒过来的第一件事，是拿起手机刷了 10 多分钟，把朋友圈、微博和抖音的新内容都看了一遍，总算是感觉清醒过来了。...
View ArticleLet’s do the UX in a Lean and Agile way: Lean UX by Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden
Lean + Agile + Design Thinking A few years ago, I read the book Lean Startup by Eric Ries, and the only thing I can remember now is the MVP, which means Minimal Viable Product. Then I read the Design...
View ArticleThe UX design evaluation of Kindle Paperwhite
I got this topic as an assignment for a UX role interview, and now I think it would be good to publish it for more comments and insights. Please let me know your thought about it, thanks!...
View ArticleCase Study of Lonely Coffee – Let’s reach out to meet interesting people🤓
Introduction As a designer just moved to a new country for less than 3 years, I found it is quite important (and hard) to reach out to other professionals to broaden my career opportunities. I think...
View Article成为全职奶爸108天后，我发现……
1 今年一月底，我离开了自己在新西兰的第一份工作，开始进入了新一轮的找工作 + Freelance 接活儿的阶段。 还记得一年多前，上班一天疲惫不堪的我回到家，和带娃一天疲惫不堪的老婆互倒苦水，两人都苦笑着说“干脆咱们换换吧，你上班，我带娃！”现在，预言成真，她重回职场，我全职带娃。 这就是这篇文章的故事背景，目前我的状态，是一个自由职业者，更是一个全职奶爸。 2...
View ArticleWhat is the user interview, and why do we need it? – Book review for...
Designers, engineers, marketers, content creators…we all need to learn how to interview users and learn things from them. Interviewing Users provides many examples and case studies for you, which is...
View ArticleTalk more and louder than I was
I joined Les Mills for 4 weeks. One thing at here I found quite different from other companies is: we talk a lot at Les Mills. Catch ups at seats are more frequently, meeting rooms are always busy and...
View ArticleThe Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Meetings
Meetings, meetings, meetings. We love them, and we hate them, sometimes we love and hate them at the same time. Last week, I attended 10 meetings and missed one. Each meeting takes 45 minutes on the...
View Article狗熊周记 Weekly Retro – 2019年第35周
每周狗熊写的中、英文短贴里，值得再次回顾与分享的内容，都列到了这里。这是一份我的每周零散心得与学习收获的汇总列表，只要五分钟，就可以获得我一周的收获。请订阅邮件Newsletter，以获得完整的分享内容：https://tinyletter.com/Beartalk 非主流国外求职技巧分享（狗熊原创）...
View Article狗熊周记 Weekly Retro – 2019年第36周 / 狗熊有话说
每周狗熊写的中、英文短贴里，值得再次回顾与分享的内容，都列到了这里。这是一份我的每周零散心得与学习收获的汇总列表，只要五分钟，就可以获得我一周的收获。请于博客 http://voice.beartalking.com 查看完整内容 读完书后大部分内容忘了怎么办？ 本周读完了Ray...
View Article狗熊周记 Weekly Retro – 2019年第37周 / 狗熊有话说
每周狗熊写的中、英文短贴里，值得再次回顾与分享的内容，都列到了这里。这是一份我的每周零散心得与学习收获的汇总列表，只要五分钟，就可以获得我一周的收获。请于博客 http://voice.beartalking.com 查看完整内容 九月阅读清单： 已读完的： The Art of War(孙子兵法）- 没读太懂… Chi Running（太极跑）- 临时抱佛脚准备下月的奥克兰马拉松 继续读：...
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