Bianca Aguilar
@biancamikaila
designer, educator, writer, learner
bianca.digitalBianca Aguilar
Notable Differences
However there are differences in eCommerce unique to this culture.
- First, speed. Blazing speed.
- Then yes, COD.
- But also, there is a large diverse eCommerce industry for food.
Rich Mirocco • Big in Japan: Web Design in the Land of the Rising Sun
There needs to be a mindful approach in treating languages. In addition to translating word by word, there is a need to understand the local nuance of the words in a specific context.
Project Lima • Inclusive design in Southeast Asia
Hui, who previously designed the New York Times’ Chinese logo and a custom typeface for tech giant Tencent, believes that Chinese type design has become stagnant and unoriginal. Most of the fonts on the market have gone through a process of convergent evolution to become blocky and conventional. “There’s no emotion behind them,” Hui told Rest
... See moreBrian Ng • Revolutionary type: Meet the designer decolonizing Chinese fonts
“There are times when personal experience keeps us from reaching the mountain top and so we let it go because the weight of it is too heavy. And sometimes the mountain top is difficult to reach with all our resources, factual and confessional, so we are just there, collectively grasping, feeling the limitations of knowledge, longing together,... See more
bell hooks • Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Fr…
No one likes over-complexity. So why does it seem to abound on the Chinese web? I think the main problems here are low awareness of web usability and a culture of duplication. There is an incredible amount of copy-catting that goes on between Chinese websites. One guy does a text-heavy design on a site that become popular, the next guy is
... See moreKendra Schaefer • Notes From Behind the Firewall: The State of Web Design in China
According to Britannica, language patterns in Southeast Asia are highly complex and are rooted in four major language families: Sino-Tibetan, Tai, Austro-Asiatic, and Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian). Also it must be noted that there are countless languages as well as dialects are used in the region.
Project Lima • Inclusive design in Southeast Asia
Significant Misconceptions #1 Africans were illiterate before colonization #2 Africa lacked civilization before European contact