steve kwan user experience designer

Minor changes that my viewers hopefully won't notice

(January 19th, 2006 - 1:36PM)

I've shuffled around a lot of the internals on this site. Hopefully you won't encounter anything that looks screwed up. If you find any inconsistencies in the site, please post a comment to let me know.

I'm attempting to make this site as intuitive, standards-compliant and aesthetically pleasing as possible. One of my areas of interest is human-computer interaction (HCI), which is the study of making software products that are easy for people to use. If you've got any suggestions on how I could improve this site they would be appreciated.

stevekwan.com is a hobby for me, but it's also a sandbox where I can test out new ideas for Web design. If I like what I do here, I often copy the ideas into production websites I develop. So telling me your opinions of this website does more than improve stevekwan.com, it helps me do my job.

One of the design principles I follow when building this site is to minimize my dependencies on third-party technologies. stevekwan.com doesn't use WordPress or any other blogging tools because I'm trying to keep it simple. The site is mostly just HTML, with some helper PHP scripts to do things that can't be done statically (such as the message board). This attitude isn't always realistic for production sites, where databases may be required. For a simple blog I think the minimalist attitude is perfectly acceptable, and I'm proud of what's been accomplished here.

I have updated my bio to provide more details about myself. Even if you know me well, you might learn something in there.