Hello again,

Welcome to my blog #2, this week we had amazing time with our guests speaker from Microsoft, Joe Hallock – principle design director and his 2 team members Ethel Xu and Rui Wu.

We all left so inspired not only from Joe and his journey to where he is today, but we also can feel very related with Ethel and Rui on how they get into big company like Microsoft with all of their hard work. I loved how great all the examples that they gave us, how to make a great resume, improving your portfolio with volunteer projects, what’s the most important things that big companies looking for when viewing your resume/portfolio. Aside of that, Joe also shared with us some real talk over tactics vs strategy, week in a life of a designer, important vs urgent, scale and design culture, career and continuous growth, as well as structuring your portfolio as I mentioned above.

After hearing Joe’s speech on a helpful graph that spanned from High Information Density to Low Information Density and from Broad Audience to Specific Audience. I made a small graph (above) on my daily work I need to get done for every day homework, midterm/final, either smaller project or some bigger ones that take not only take more time to get done, but also could be more important and need more detail attention into them.

As you can see, I am trying to do my daily homework right after each class if there is something small, quick and easy to finish, that way I can get them done right away to move on with other classes with bigger project. When it comes to bigger homework projects, I have a strong time management on each project and make sure to have it done a night before each class. For smaller project for midterm/final, I gather information early and try to work on them ASAP, study hard and make sure get some feedback right away so I can improve my work, for the bigger project for midterm and final, I am not only start on it ASAP but also brainstorm, pay more attention, work on it everyday, and make sure to be on schedule on each week on where I need them to be. That’s my spectrum for myself to finish my work and be successful in all of my classes.

Thank you for taking your time reading my blog #2 and can’t wait to share more with you all on my next blog next week. Ciao for now!