Back in 2019, I bought these running shoes in Tokyo and felt inspired to draw my first pixel art :) This was also my first unofficial post on dribbble
For this randomly generated UI challenge, everyone in our office had to make a 404 Page + Flowers. When I think of flowers I couldn't help but think of the Thai Loy Kratong Festival.
This time we had to design a To Do App + Magical. Adventure Time was one of my favorite TV shows growing up, so I felt obligated to bring a little Ice King magic to our Finn the Human world.
When I think of time travel I think of Back to the Future (with a little Elon Musk Tesla twist to the vehicle).
At first I started ferociously sketching out wireframes but the layout quickly became jammed pack. So, I took a step back and created a persona of myself and the problems I had taking care of my Pomeranian. With a clearer scope to the problem, I was now able to sketch out the wireframe which I turned into a UI screen.
For this design challenge the prompt was to design a premium countdown timer. After brainstorming, I decided to incorporate a whiskey glass into my timer mechanism. Although I don't drink whiskey, I always found the blue and gold of the blue label classy so it could potentially work.
I had just returned from a trip to Osaka and was inspired by my run around the city's majestic castle, surrounded by cherry blossoms.
Decided to try experimenting with Neumorphism / Soft UI style. I really love using my Garmin GPS watch for all my fitness activities :) and thought it be cool to try giving the app a new look (while keeping the badges since I really love their current artwork!)
Some kind soul gave me a dribbble invite, so now other people in the community can see my work (before that it was only me who could see it). This was my official Hello Dribbble debut post.
My playful interpretation of Google Chrome's no internet dinosaur. The dinosaur evolves into Godzilla and the final boss is the Fire Fox.
This was when the corona virus pandemic started and incidents of hate crimes against asians were on the news. It saddened me that innocent people were getting discriminated against because of the color of their skin.
In times of fear, we sometimes forget that we are more similar than different. Stay safe, stay strong, stay loving.
I decided to try the Daily UI Challenges. Here was my take on #1 Signup. I used the bunny sickle logo I designed for my t-shirt for the splash screen and my low poly salad render for the main screen.
My take on challenge #2 design a credit card checkout form.
Today's design challenge was a landing page. Taking the Plant Slayer mock brand concept a bit further, I designed the landing page for a fresh produce subscription kit and incorporated a 3d piece I had rendered as the hero image.
I have always had such difficulty drawing perspectives, so I thought it would be a good learning experience if I created a low poly scene in Blender then redraw as a vector using Figma.
For this UI challenge, the prompt was redesign the calculator. I tried going with a more colorful and modern theme, using gradients that are typical amongst startup apps and websites.
I was sending emojis on my phone when I had an idea that the eggplant emoji could make for a cute icon. Continuing with the plant slayer theme, I added in a ninja star for good measure.
This year one of our office resolutions was to have more UI design challenges. The first prompt we each had to do was to redesign McDonald Thailand's application.
This one was a interesting one. The prompt was design the UI for a hypothetical startup that uses Elon Musk's Neural Link to be able to understand your pets. So I experimented with a clean chat based UI concept mixed with Apple's Siri. The star of this app is yours truly, Salapao my doggie.
The prompt this time was redesign a hotel app that guests on Phi Phi island use to book activities. I had been seeing cool frosted glass ui effects on dribbble, so I wanted to try and experiment with it.
Redesign the Strava app to make it more friendly for running newbies.
When you are just starting out, it can be intimidating to see your friends who have been running for a while do these seemingly impossible distance. Because of this I thought it would be a cool concept if users could also see their friends activities back in time. On my feed, I can switch to time machine mode and see the activities of my friends at the same point in time after joining as me. For example, after if I've been using Strava for 2 weeks I can also see the activities my friends had logged back when they had been using Strava for 2 weeks.
For this office design challenge, we had to explore a gamification concept to use with www.gather.town (think zoom meets discord meets pixel rpg). I designed a add-on feature so users could complete pomodoros (25 minute blocks of focused work) and compete with colleagues to see who could be the most productive. In turn, the winners of the leaderboard can unlock avatar or room decoration items. Additionally, It was important that users could be able to see when other people are in the process of their pomodoro as to not distract them and can leave a note that appears only after that person's pomdoro is completed.
