November 19, 2011
October 19, 2011
Laundry Nudge UX
Left a mountain of clean laundry on sofa to motivate me to fold it when I get home. Got home and gladly leaned on it instead, lazed around and watched bad tv. Unfortunately/luckily, laundry of jeans is not very soft to rest on. Wanted room back to be be able to lay on the soft sofa pillows. So now I'm forced to fold laundry... Sigh i guess it worked...
September 24, 2011
September 23, 2011
Pancake Blaster
Great idea but feels very wasteful to end up with an empt aerosol can that is not easy to recycle.
Especially since not much batter can fit in a can.
Please think of the full cycle of the product, manufacturers.
Especially since not much batter can fit in a can.
Please think of the full cycle of the product, manufacturers.
September 18, 2011
DIY Light Switch Labels
Been wanting to do this to our new house as I still haven't gotten the light switches memorized. Johnny happened to have some sticker labels and voila! Johnny insisted we tape over them to protect them; I on the other hand am ok if they get old and dirty; that will give me another oppotunity to think on them and see what better labels I can come up with for the next round ... :)
ceiling fan & light using a UFO metaphor
aahh, the trouble maker power plug switch in the living room ...
September 13, 2011
Korean Spice
The team was having lunch. A joke comes out just as I put kimchi in my mouth. The spice went up my nose while we all laugh hysterically. Sigh the dangers in working for a Korean company
July 8, 2011
Closet Sound Barrier
I never understood the floor plans of a narrow, windowless closet in between the bathroom and the bedroom.
However, since we moved to our new house, I suddenly understood the genius of the closet as the sound barrier between the bathroom and the bedroom!
Our current bathroom layout opens right into the bedroom so that if one spouse needs to wake up earlier than the other and get ready for work, the flowing water, hair dryer wakes up the spouse still in bed:
So, instead of just another narrow closet in between the bathroom and bedroom floor plan, I thought I might as well try a redesign with my preferred typical Japanese bathtub + shower layout -- a 'water proofed' room housing both the shower & bath tub side by side so once one's cleanly rinsed via the shower, he can jump right in and soak in the steamy bathtub.
This particular layout tries to retain a similar dimension as the current layout:
We could even insert one of those tiny sinks in the water closet. The flaw with this layout though is the toilet's placement right next to the closet which may seem disconcerting ... This layout also moves the closet sound barrier from the next door bedroom.
In spite of the downside however, note the penetrating skylight in the sound barrier corridor!
However, since we moved to our new house, I suddenly understood the genius of the closet as the sound barrier between the bathroom and the bedroom!
Our current bathroom layout opens right into the bedroom so that if one spouse needs to wake up earlier than the other and get ready for work, the flowing water, hair dryer wakes up the spouse still in bed:
So, instead of just another narrow closet in between the bathroom and bedroom floor plan, I thought I might as well try a redesign with my preferred typical Japanese bathtub + shower layout -- a 'water proofed' room housing both the shower & bath tub side by side so once one's cleanly rinsed via the shower, he can jump right in and soak in the steamy bathtub.
This particular layout tries to retain a similar dimension as the current layout:
We could even insert one of those tiny sinks in the water closet. The flaw with this layout though is the toilet's placement right next to the closet which may seem disconcerting ... This layout also moves the closet sound barrier from the next door bedroom.
In spite of the downside however, note the penetrating skylight in the sound barrier corridor!
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