Hello, this is Allen.

I am a thinker, designer, creator, "curioist", writer, and a bit of a geek at times. 

My spectrum of interest, passion, and sentimentalty has lead me onto a ton of different experiences and appreciation for almost everything good and bad of all forms.

I have...

• worked at a startup that was acquired by Google

• worked 'till the sunrises numerous times

• worked on a dozen 1.0 products

• co-founded a pet health supplement & a property lease startup

• ran a couple workshops / public speeches, and kids' summer camp

• started writing casually on Medium

• owned/worked on 5+ blogs on and off

• a dream of hosting/be in design battles or TV shows

• designed for almost every discipline

• been a life-long volunteer @ various orgs / events

I believe in...

...designing for better experiences, easier to use products, and helping our days to be more efficient. I want to impact people's lives so every detail matters in order to convey emotions through visual and interaction means.

I use a lot of...

For things like graphic design, GUI design, prototyping, flow/wireframes, motion graphics, video editing, audio production, and other fun things.

More about me (if you're curious)

I always loved art of all sort growing up, drawing my own comic books and doodling on any paper I come across. I made my first website in the early '90s with notepad and I still remember the nightmares of <TD> for table cells. Having a big heart and interest in advertising and marketing I somehow ventured into the UX design field.

I've had the luck of working on a lot of version 1 products through the companies I've been to; which allowed me to be creative, dream up from scratch, and of course deal with all the research, stakeholder management, and support issues required for any new product.
 
I love traveling, both for work or for personal reasons. Working with, meeting, and experiencing different cultures inspire me. It's important to catchup with trends, news, and world events -- but it's the details of everyday life that inspires me the most.
 
To me it's what matters -- appreciate and feel life. Depending on how you look at it, everything can be beautiful.

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I've worked at
 

Amazon
Xbox
Wavii
Microsoft
Trend Micro
CyberLink
Toolhouse Design 
Petmune International

and some more

On products like


Amazon.com
Xbox.com
Xbox membership
Hotmail (ad bar) 
Microsoft AdCenter
Microsoft OSD Privacy Policy Site
Lenovo Shuttle Center
Norton OneCare Mini Site
Intuit QuickBooks Tutorials
Trend Micro Titanium 2.0, 3.0
Trend Micro Internet Security Pro 17.5
Trend Micro Online Guardian 1.0
Trend Micro DirectPass 1.0
Trend Micro Backup & Restore 1.0
CyberLink PowerDVD 6.0, 7.0
CyberLink PowerDirector 6.0, 7.0
CyberLink PowerCinema 6.0
CyberLink YouCam 1.0, 2.0 

With brands such as
 

Acer
Asus
BLIA
Cisco
Dell
Gateway
HP
Intuit
Lenovo
Linksys
NEC
Norton
Puff Nation
Simon Fraser University
Sony
Symantec
Tencent
VideAce
Yahoo!