mrwangkai

I used to do SEO for a Samsung mobile support site. We rarely use anything monetary in an effort to up our traffic. After a few months, we went from 30 unique per day to a few hundred per day. And by the time I left the company in a year, we are about 3000 unique visitor per day.

It definitely takes some effort to build good content alongside some SEO attributes. Just need patience (& Googling good ways to help things along).

I won't recommend going with a SEO firm, let alone $200/month.

Go Hoosiers!

Thanks Sumedh, I like your idealstartupintern.com & the idea of it. It looks neat and is something intern-seeker/job-seeker can definitely look into developing.

I think each designer have their own set of processes that changes and develops over time. I have one that's slowly coming into shape - I'll look into articulate it better and integrate it into the portfolio site.

Agree with the blog posts comment. I have too many draft sitting around that I need to get them polished and published.

I'm still a little iffy on expressing too much on the entire site. I don't want to be labelled as being minimalistic - although the term has some good connotation to it. I think ultimately, I hope the site should be simple and yet expressive.

All very good comments. I know I'm leaving myself bare by posting here, but getting all these comments push me to think. I really appreciate them.

So are you in Bloomington right now?

Hi Feng,

Anytime the word 'prototype' is involved, it lights up the eyes of an ux/interaction designer. :)

We love prototyping. We love creating rapid prototype even more - it saves time and can give others (clients, stakeholders, etc) a rough idea of what we are trying to describe quickly.

I've given it a quick run through and it seems like a fairly easy to use program that works with very low load time. It also just work (at least of the times I have tried to run it).

Kudos for putting this together. The somewhat low learning curve should encourage usage from different users. I know I would.

Thanks for sharing.

Hi gareim,

Thank you for your feedback as well. I do apologize for any grammatical error that might have been left unchecked, I'll look into revising them.

And yes, I'm not an American by birth - as you might have read from my About page, I was born in China, grew up in Singapore and now studies in the States.

Your comments on each of the design (and the whole portfolio in general) is definitely helpful in not only reiterating them, but for me to revisit my design thinking. Points taken, thanks.

I definitely agree with you that actual usability/practicality should not be ignored in UX design, which seems like a majority of the field's existence.

Thanks again for taking the time to go through my portfolio site and writing up this response. Don't worry about sounding harsh, it is what it is.

Hi Anthony,

Thank you for your feedback and your encouragement.

There are definitely room for improvement in the portfolio to better represent myself as someone from the field of HCI. And I will continue to work on that.

The personal project is a good idea that I'm now starting to be more courageous to step into as well. An example will be making more prototypes or just plainly making stuff in general. (Coincidentally, I did tried to redesign Amazon's rating system last year - no code just design).

In terms of prototyping, I have recently, after finding out the Flip will be discontinued, made a couple of rapid paper prototype of the device to get a look/feel to decide which one of the lineup I should purchase before they are all sold out.

My main reason for seeking out an UX intern is to get a feel of working in the field and to practice what I've learnt so far. The above answer may sound generic, but coming from a different field of study in my B.S, I think the prospect of applying the different theories/methods/practices I have learnt (so far) in a real world setting will be an amazing experience for me.

Thanks again for your feedback. The plain sight of someone replying is gratifying enough. I will definitely go back to the drawing board and continue reiterate my portfolio.