Design – Wyatt Mingji Lim

Reality Check

Wyatt Mingji Lim · January 19, 2016

Recently I had participated in the Designathon 2016, the first of its series, organised by Design Singapore with 3 of my best friends. The result was unenviable, as my team was knocked out in the first round. A combination of over-ambition, poor team management, lack of adequate resources as well as misunderstanding of the purpose …

Transformation in post LKY Singapore

Wyatt Mingji Lim · August 3, 2015November 2, 2019

The conversation with Joshua today touched on something that is very close to our heart. The topic of discussion is Singapore, and its future. In recent times, the ruling PAP-led government is gradually running out of ideas or perhaps, running out of the possibility to push Singapore to a next level in a top down …

EDM Standards

Wyatt Mingji Lim · March 22, 2015March 22, 2015

“Building an email is not like building for the web. While web browsers continue their onward march towards standards, many email clients have stubbornly stayed put. Some have even gone backwards. In 2007, Microsoft switched the Outlook rendering engine from Internet Explorer to Word. Yes, as in the word processor. Add to this the quirks …

The irony of “helping designers”

Wyatt Mingji Lim · March 13, 2015

Every time someone try to get a “good deal” out of the designers; the designers are cutting their own flesh to give you a good deal. And the designers, as a result, earn lesser, can never (or hardly) grow bigger or better. They have no resources to upgrade, to improve their softwares, to improve their …

Anger boiling over…

Wyatt Mingji Lim · December 17, 2014

Of recent times, I have seen Singaporeans anger boiling beyond proportions – beyond what made logical sense; their anger, almost bordering non-sense. Today, LTA launched a new taxi app: called Taxi-Taxi@SG. The outcry just pisses me off. When it was first announced, people are pissed! Seriously LTA?? You also want to earn some money through …

Future User Interface

Wyatt Mingji Lim · December 11, 2014

As part of yet another engaging conversation (which I kept having a mental note that we need to start recording all our conversations), we discussed future interface as part of a massive interconnecting discourse over dinner at Din Tai Feng. We debated on how the future of how we control our computer will no longer …

Design Thinking x Military Strategy

Wyatt Mingji Lim · November 28, 2014

I was watching this military strategy documentary, called “BattlePlan” where they revisits various historical battles that features the battle plan/tactics that are being discussed, for example, a blockage, an amphibious assault, a Siege, etc…. In BattlePlan, they break down the entire operation into phases with specific prerequisites in order for the plan to work, to …

The hypothesis hypothesis

Wyatt Mingji Lim · November 22, 2014

I have a hypothesis about having hypothesis to kickstart things or based things around. It may not really be a new thing, just like design thinking had existed for as long as the collective intelligence of humans can reckon. But by identifying and naming it, it is thus discovered. (Senseless sometimes) Like how Columbus discovered …

A revolution?

Wyatt Mingji Lim · August 23, 2013

Yesterday, when I made the last 2 post, I was at Starbucks Plaza Singapura. It was the first starbucks session, a serious session, since I dunno when. I had been so busy for so many months, perhaps even years, since I last sat there and really put my head into serious planning and strategizing. A …

Don’t design with Photoshop.

Wyatt Mingji Lim · July 18, 2013January 5, 2015

“If you want to be a serious designer and to move up another level in your skills – stop using Photoshop to design. Start using a vector software like Illustrator. Photoshop is meant for Photo-editing and Post-Production; its called “Photo Shop” for a reason.” ~Mingji Lim