Recently, I arrived in Paris to begin my foreign exchange semester at Université Paris Dauphine. Even though Montreal is a partially francophone city, there are various social and cultural differences between the lives of a student in Quebec and a foreign exchange scholar in Europe’s cultural capital. Thus, this blog will provide weekly information of [...]
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When I was working last summer, I saw this print-out “The Spectrum of User Experience” on Samantha’s wall (by wall I actually meant the physical office cubical wall). This image basically screams “STORY OF YOUR LIFE!” right in my face. As soon as I saw this image, I knew I was going to fall in [...]
Recently, I am putting together my portfolio on Glossom.com As I am going through my archives and digging through my collection over the past 7 months, I came across some Design Language guidelines I made for McGill Management International Case Competition (MMICC), where I am Vice-President Creative Design for the second consecutive year. Design [...]
I came across this picture and laughed. (Carmen, I expect the same reaction from you.) Source: The Blog of Steven Beckmann Hahahhahaaha loloool hahahah…! Wait a minute. My MacBook Pro is almost 20 months old, and it recently — recently as in 4 months ago — got beer spilled over (party foul). According to [...]
When I was a kid, I used to HATE soda pop. I thought it was absolutely the most disgusting beverage any human can consume in their right state of mind. On September 1 2010, I began my part-time employment at Dave’s Store – a student-run convenience store in the management faculty basement. It was then [...]
I recently rediscovered the compelling power of an ethos. Professor Dror Etizion showed us this YouTube video on “Nike Considered Design” during his Social Context of Business lecture. Check it out: “A shoe can’t change the world, but an ethos can.” – Nike’s Considered, promoting its closed loop design mindset among employees, particularly designers to [...]
Do you remember your last time getting lost in the streets? Do you remember being that helpless kid in a sea of strangers? Lost in the middle of a swarm of people on a hot summer afternoon in 1996, I was crying in the middle of the streets, helpless and vulnerable. Suddenly, there came a [...]
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is one of the most important skills in the Marketing field. The CRM model you find below will give you a brief idea what it is all about: Essentially, businesses seek for growth and development. In order to attain that, what should the marketing department do? The ultimate goal for implementing [...]
