UX & Product Designer

Chi Wai Li



Weekly Top 5 #48 – Confidence, Travel Hack and Yoga

One Question: What would you do if you were confident? Thanks Danny for recommending the book The Confidence Gap by Russ Harris to me. Just the question above alone is worth every penny. How different would your life be if you were confident? What would you do differently? One T-shirt: For travellers “A picture is worth a […]

WordPress the_excerpt() not working with Chinese Text

WordPress’ excerpt is pretty useful, if the article doesn’t have predefined text as excerpt, it would  automatically create one using the first 55 words from your post to make one for you. If the original text is: The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny […]

An over simplified web developer's guide to hacking through InDesign

First of all, please know I am an absolute beginner when it comes to Adobe InDesign, the following notes are various similarities I’ve noticed between HTML/CSS & InDesign whilst learning to put together my first book.  This is by no means a step by step walk through either, for that I would highly recommend this article. […]

How to style a 'Choose File' Upload button

For some silly reason standard css wouldn’t allow the file upload button to be styled. Naturally the very smart people have found ways around this. Although there are various method, I like this simple one the most. The HTML <div id=”file” class=”btn”>Upload Photo</div> <input type=”file” name=”file” /> The CSS #file { display:none; }​ The Javascript […]

5 Quick and Dirty Steps to decide if I should use something

This is a very quick and DIRTY hack I use when I need to deciding if I should try something or not. Most of the time this is to with some sort of software or service related, but I it can also be used for anything. Below is a quick step by step of my […]