N76 Design Contest

I haven't design for ages but I'd like to try -something pink/girly! http://www.nseries.com/n76

Happy V-Day!

Ooo. I am a sucker for anything pink. Nokia Europe introduced the pink collections for Valentine's Day. Sweet.
Oh, wait. They are all S40, not S60... Girls don't need smart phones, do they?

I got a pink MacBook on Xmas...

...Not! I wished...

Available at: Coloreware

FashMatch.com - Social Fashion Styling

Fine, match, and get!
FishMatch is an another brand-new social networking site, specializing for fashion! The site lets you to choose items like tops, bottoms, and shoes, by brand (including Juicy Couture!), style and fit. Once you find great outfit all togeter, you publish the match to public. What makes this site social about is that everybody can view your match and rate it. The screenshot here shows the site UI, with my match - Juicy Couture top and necklace, Blue Cult denim, with Marc Jacobs pumps. You can also purchase the outfit from the site. (The grand total of the style is $3244, by the way!)

Honestly, I love the whole idea about this site but I'd say the UI is not designed really well, and causes pretty bad usability and user experiences. It took me a while to figure out how to work around, and actually spent a long time to create just one match. The each process is painfully slow because the page needs to load each time you make each request. This can be improved if they implement JavaScript/Ajax efficiently. But hey, it is still in Beta! I hope to see some great improvement for next release!

New Juicy Couture @ Westfiled SF

This is nothing to deal with web dev stuff. I stopped by the new expanded mall, Westfield Centre that opened yesterday. After my stressful day, I was too exhausted to shop so I decidec to just check out a new Juicy Couture store and Bloomies. The blurry photos here are snapshots from Juicy boutique.

Last week I read an article about Juicy's business success, and liked the quote by "so not corporate" co-founder, Gela Nash-Taylor.

We thought an IT platform was a shoe

I wish the industry I belong were that stylish...

Social Shopping List

It seems like an another big wave of Internet trend has been around (but hope this is not like the late-90s dot-com crap), the social-networking sites have been massive success (though I hate MySpace), "tagging" has been everywhere, and I started hearing news about new startups all the time.

Today, I've read about this "a collaborative shopping community" called Stylehive, whose office is located here in San Francisco. Though this site has so much more to be improved, the idea and look-and-feel of the site are something I can relate.

Browsing the tags like manolo makes me want them really want them. Bad for me, but this fits perfectly as we live in the material world.

(This blog entry was originally written on June 16 for my other blog and copied it on Blogger on Sept.27)