Thought Garden
Welcome to my thought garden. A public notebook. A space to learn in public. A place to share my perspectives on design, coding, tech, mindset, and parenting.
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2025 Thoughts
✦ February
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2025 Thoughts
✦ January
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2024 Thoughts
✦ December
Why your personal website should be minimal
Simple design speaks volumes. A minimal website isn't about less, but about making room for what truly matters—your story and work.
2024 Thoughts
✦ March
Fall in love with the process over outcomes
If you are like me and many other creatives, you have many interests and want to do many things. You’
2024 Thoughts
✦ March
Being a generalist helps you find the right career choice
Being a self-taught designer has been something that made me unconfident.
I hated how I never specialized in anything in
2024 Thoughts
✦ March
STAR Interview Method for Product Designers
STAR interview method is a powerful tool that product designers can use to showcase skills during job interviews.
2024 Thoughts
✦ March
You can improve anything with 30 min a day for 30 days
🌱 The Seinfeld strategy — Don’t break the chain encourages us to use a big calendar that has a whole year
2024 Thoughts
✦ March
iA Presenter is impressive
The execution of iA Presenter is fantastic! I believe they will go much further soon.
2024 Thoughts
✦ March
Systems vs Goals
I’m always failed at exercising regularly. It usually starts with passion, the first week is awesome and motivated. But the next week, it becomes less and less.
2024 Thoughts
✦ February
The day I become a better designer
The day I become a better design is the day I start writing.
2024 Thoughts
✦ February
Generalist vs Specialist
When you hire a person to solve a problem. Do you want to hire a person who knows many things or a person who great dept in one thing?
2024 Thoughts
✦ February
Design Tips, Visually
2023 Thoughts
✦ October
Imposter syndrome is real
It happens to many people. Many people are facing it too.
2023 Thoughts
✦ July
Different High-level Designs
The more senior the designer, the more abstract the problem they should be solving.
Designer Lvl 1: Design a form
2023 Thoughts
✦ March
🌱 Children who are later talkers
🌱 Feynman was an American theoretical physicist born in New York City. He’s a famous physicist, but many people know
2023 Thoughts
✦ March
🌱 Feynman
Richard Feynman was an American theoretical physicist born in 1918 in New York City.
Feynman was a very late talker—
2023 Thoughts
✦ March
Layoff diary
Documenting my process of looking for new jobs after the layoff. Or maybe doing something fun. Good luck to me!
2023 Thoughts
✦ February
🌱 Atomic essays
Have you heard of the term "atomic essay" coined by the Ship-30-by-30 creators? It's a fascinating
2023 Thoughts
✦ February
And I got an offer 🎉
Oh Yeah. I got an offer.
After almost 3 months of unemployment and many rejections, I got an offer. I
2023 Thoughts
✦ February
📗 A company I'm interviewing at has conducted a layoff
Do you believe that?
Yeah, it's the truth. Anything can happen, mah.
I was in the middle of
2023 Thoughts
✦ February
How to prepare for your Facebook product design interview
Highlights from Lily Konings’s sharing on how to land a product design job at Facebook
2023 Thoughts
✦ January
🌱 Ask for quick sharing right after every user interview
Doing this will help you synthesize user research 2x faster.
2023 Thoughts
✦ January
🌱 📗 Whiteboard challenge Step-by-Step & Tips
Some companies will have a whiteboard design challenge. I will have one session next week. It will be a case
2023 Thoughts
✦ January
🌱 Building a product isn't about whether it can be built
But about if people need it.
Learning to code might be wise. I think everyone should learn to code nowadays.
2023 Thoughts
✦ January
🌱 Moving my website to Ghost
I’m building an entirely new website with Ghost. My goal is ambitious — to make it my primary website.
It
2023 Thoughts
✦ January
📗 Interviewing & Rejection
Yesterday I had only one interview with a designer from a big crypto company.
The interviewer is very nice, kind,
2023 Thoughts
✦ January
Powerful life hacks for career, health, and relationship
Sahil Bloom is my greatest resource for learning. His newsletter and Twitter content always give me new and powerful lessons.
2022 Thoughts
✦ December
Write first, present later
Writing first and presenting later is one of the best pieces of advice I get in my career.
2022 Thoughts
✦ December
📗 Two more chats with HR, and it was good
But today, I got two chats with HR from two new companies.
Both are crypto companies, one is a startup,
2022 Thoughts
✦ December
📗 Chat with Viki Recruiter
I had a Chat with a recruiter from Rakuten this morning. He's very nice and warm. Talking with
2022 Thoughts
✦ December
📨 Letter from Audience #01
💌Hi Trong,
I am Yurong, a product designer based in Singapore. I chanced upon your article on LinkedIn and when
2022 Thoughts
✦ December
Harmonize the Web Experience
The story of how I improved the buying experience on the web for vertical categories.