Construction of this website started in October of 2022. In August of the same year, I discovered my passion for HTML and CSS, two tools that I feverishly learned so well that they helped me win Best Wiki for my iGEM team.
My obsession with user experience designs, however, originated way back in 2018 when I first watched a video from Apple's WWDC, where they introduced design guidelines for developers to accommodate the new gesture of iPhone X.
Enthralled by the minute details in Apple's meticulous and often flawless designs, I started out building my own website, thinking about what content should be published there. Yet before the content was even completed, a rudimentary design was already born after days of loitering in Visual Studio Code. I envisioned and eventually wrote and polished a menu bar that contained links to pages, and a search bar for input. But soon I learned the difference between static and dynamic websites, and the search function's development was suspended. So was the blog's development.
After 2 years of rince and repeat, revisions and overhauls, I've arrived at the 9th version of this website. Each redesign was the product of my attempts of combining aesthetics and human-centered thinking.
Of course, the contents were still not worked out or even thought out thoroughly, the HCI lines of thinking childish and basic. But if there's anything I've learned from building websites, it's there's no end to it.
Jerry, Sep 1 2024