Felix Lee

If you’ve ever stared at a huge restaurant menu and just ordered the same thing again, you’ll probably think you’re indecisive. Too many options. You freeze. You default. If you’re like most people, your instinct is immediate: that’s just me. But it’s not you. It’s design. There’s a set of rules designers use called the laws of UX. They’re based on how your brain actually works. Hick’s law. The more choices you see, the longer you take to decide. That’s why the best menus are short. Fitts’s law. The bigger and closer a button is, the easier it is to tap. That’s why “Buy now” is huge and right under your thumb, and “Cancel subscription” is tiny and hidden. Jakob’s law. You expect every app to work like the ones you already use. That’s why every shopping cart sits in the top right corner. Once you know these, you see them everywhere. Every app you use was designed to make some things easy and other things hard. Good design isn’t taste. It’s psychology. #claudeai #figma #canva #igsg #creativity

Your mental health is worth more than your salary. #career #careerintech

once upon a time when it all started 🇺🇸 it’s kind of fun to do the impossible. inspired by @halimi.xx #moveabroad #singaporean #igsg #sanfrancisco #sfbayarea

Design is the only job where everyone thinks they’re qualified. Nobody tells an engineer the backend feels a bit off. Nobody tells finance the model is giving weird vibes. But everyone has notes on your button. And they’re not wrong to have them. Design is the only work in the company that every single person can see. You don’t need to read the code to react to a screen. Having eyes feels like having taste. So everyone walks into the review already qualified, in their own head. I was a designer for ten years and I run a company now. I have been the guy with the dumb opinion about a button. Here’s what I learned from both chairs. If it’s your taste against their taste, you lose. They’re more senior. Taste does not win arguments. The only thing that beats an opinion is a reason. Everyone in that room has an opinion. Only one person is paid to have a reason. Good design is defensible. Agree? #claudeai #figma #canva #designer #vibecoding

There is a creative director who completely changed what design means for me. Virgil Abloh. He had this thought experiment. Imagine a candle at a garage sale. People walk past it. It’s worth a dollar, maybe two. Now take the same candle — the exact same one — and put it in a carefully designed room. The lighting is perfect. It sits on a beautiful pedestal. The whole space is quiet and intentional, designed around it. Now that candle is worth tens of thousands of dollars. Nothing about the candle changed. The room changed how people saw it. The room gave it meaning. The room told people: this is valuable. That’s what design does. It teaches people how to see. What something is worth was never in the object — it was in the context around it. And it’s not just about objects. If you’re not appreciated — at work, in your career, anywhere — maybe you’re not broken. Maybe you’re just in the wrong room. #virgilabloh #figma #designers #claudeai #careeradvice

If you open a Chinese app for the first time, you’ll probably think it’s badly designed. Too many icons and features. Everything crammed onto one screen. If you grew up on Western apps, your instinct is immediate: this is cluttered. But it works. In the U.S., we’ve been trained to associate good UX with minimalism. In China, density often signals value. Open WeChat or Alipay, it feels overwhelming at first. Information-heavy, feature-packed. But to local users, that density means capability. It says: everything you might need is already here in front of you. If you enter a new market assuming your design taste equals good UX, you’ll misread the signal. Good design is contextual. #claudeai #figma #adobe #canva #designers