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Hello, I'm 方世杰 , specialise in crafting and delightful web design and interfaces. Currently, I am running a called specialised in crafting brand identities and digital products.

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Closing February, Envisioning March 2026

Like pruning a plant, Feb-March is all about redirection.

Feb 28, 2026

How To Think About Admitting Mistakes

Sometimes, admitting mistake is about reacting to changed condition.

Feb 22, 2026

2025 Wrapped, 2026 Goals

I’ve lost count how much life has changed last year, for the better.

Jan 25, 2026

Design & Career Essays

How To Think About Admitting Mistakes

Sometimes, admitting mistake is about reacting to changed condition.

Feb 22, 2026

Mediocrity and the Job Title Lore

People look up to you because of your good judgement, not title.

Oct 22, 2023

Small and Repetitive Design Work Is Part of the Grind

An essay dedicated to designers who wants to land on that dream project...whatever you call it.

Jun 18, 2023

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AI, Figma, Code: Inside a $90,000 Rebrand
In this video, we break down the full process behind the Unkey rebrand made by our Pixel Point agency.
WWDC18: The Qualities of Great Design | Apple
Learn how they take inspiration from everyday life, conceive and refine ideas, and push themselves to design apps and games that can stand the test of time.
AI in Typeface Design: Beyond Automation to Understanding | Eunbee Lee | ATypI 2025 Copenhagen
As artificial intelligence continues to evolve, its role in typeface design is shifting from simple automation to deeper contextual understanding. This session explores how AI can extend, rather than replace, the creativity of type designers by intelligently interpreting textual context, design principles, and user intent. Rather than merely following typographic rules, can AI truly understand the contextual background, intent, and meaning behind typography?
From the To-Do List to the AI Agent
This video argues that the difference is not cosmetic. Every productivity tool is built from a series of trades: at each step it gives up something the old way had in exchange for something the old way lacked, and you can read almost any app by working out which trades it has made. Most have made the same ones. A few have refused, and pay for it elsewhere.
The Hidden Cost of Instant Answers
Were information accidents engineered out of our digital lives? Modern interfaces promise instant efficiency, delivering the exact answer we want, devoid of the context we need. It seems that most of the tools we use to navigate the information world today are turning finding out to mere consumption.
Adam Neumann
Adam Neumann is an entrepreneur, investor, and the co-founder of WeWork. Launching the shared office-space company in 2010, he grew WeWork into a global coworking brand that, at its peak, was valued at roughly $47 billion.
The Happy Path Doesn't Exist: Notes on Software Fluidity
This video uses an egg timer to argue that even for the simplest of applications, the happy path is not a simplified version of the real system. It is just one very specific trajectory, more like a graph than a set of flow charts. States, transitions, failures, interruptions, parallel instances, OS boundaries, inferred durations: none of these are things that happen to a system. They are what a system is.
Do It With Style: Rethinking CSS - Dylan Beattie - NDC London 2026
In this session, he'll take you on a whirlwind tour of some of the weird and wonderful things you can do in 2026 using semantic HTML, a generous sprinkling of CSS, and absolutely no JavaScript.
Selling Without Being Salesy: The Kind Way to Sell.
Discover groundbreaking insights from Chris Do's dynamic talk at the RGD Conference in Toronto. Chris, an acclaimed design strategist and educator, delves deep into the transition from minor league tactics to major league strategies when your projects surpass the $200,000 mark. Learn how to outshine global competition and shatter your own limits.
YC - How We Redesigned Our Website
In this special episode of Design Review, YC General Partner Aaron Epstein and YC Product Designer Eve Bouffard break down how they went about redesigning the YC homepage from the ground up.