Ends and extents Sacha Chua

What do I want to learn? Why? How well? Design User interface design, in particular If I'm going to build things, I may as well make them pleasant to use. With enough skill, good design takes a little more time than Just bad design (maybe). Challenges: 2 Tech skills Perspective-designing who are not me • Working with others? for • Exposure to good design. taking it apart Extent: people Reasonably pretty prototypes, and ease of working with specialists (design vocab, separation of code and content) But probably not: Design awards, new hacks, super polish Development Mostly web. It's good to be able to build small tools and share them. Extent: Wizardly? Semi-wizardly? Adept at using APIs and building interactive sites. Taking advantage of new browser capabilities. Adept at general automation as well. Good at stitching things together. But probably not: e • Low-level Highly scalable Native 2014-08-29 & Writing/Drawing I find my notes & Processes to be really helpful, and maybe they're useful to others too. Extent: Can explore complex thoughts and explain them in a clear, approachable manner. Organized, searchable, reliable archive of notes on a variety of topics spanning decades. Recognizable sketches (simple). Some But probably not: -Realistic art • 18 Fiction Extended forms shading painting