What I Talk About When I Talk About UX Research

• Develop Persona Profile Pictures Using iOS Memoji

• Challenged by Choosing The Color of Your Kanken Backpack? I Want to Help

  • A tool I created to make it easier for you to decide

• Turning “Inappropriate” Questions in Usability Testing to Meaningful Ones

  • A reflection on how I could be less biased/leading in facilitating usability testing sessions

• “You Take Control as a User Researcher” — My First Feedback Session with My UX Research Mentor

• Shall I Complain, They’re Already Wearing Headphones

  • An encounter I had with someone who shared a room with me and appeared to be “loud and rude”

• When Happiness Is So Overrated

  • A photo management system prompted me that a “happy photo was uploaded.” How did you know that?

• “You know you can mute your phone, right?”

  • I found my classmate irrespective and decided to take the chance to tell her about it. Then I learned something.

Linguistically Speaking

• Teaching English to Kids in the Family with Duolingo: Tips and Thoughts

• Just Take A Hint, You

  • My non-academic linguistic take on recruiters’ circumnavigation.

• College Rejection Letters and Love letters

• Arguments in the Recent History of Emoji

• The Perfect Ambiguity

  • How would you respond to this comment, “you went to Carnegie Mellon, my son went to Harvard, which is better.”

• My Teaching Philosophy—A Practitioner of English Language Teaching

• “Where Is the Predicate?” — My English Learning Journey with Dad

Thoughts (to Be) Put Into Actions

• Mind If I Practice the Piano in Private? Thoughts on Spaces around Creating Music and Sounds

• A Writing Anatomy: When Leaves Take off from the Windshield

• My College Graduation Speech at UCSD | “We Can Be the One, and We Have to Be”

• When Home Is Where Instagram Is Illegal