I’m Trong, a digital product designer based in Singapore. Currently, I’m working as a Product Designer at Carousell focusing on Property, Car, Home Services, and building out Carousell’s design system.
Previously, I was the sole UX designer at the e-commerce startup Leflair and the founding designer of Code Engine Studio.
I spent five years in a tech university to learn software engineering, but I soon realized design is my passion. I hated coding, but my gut told me to finish the engineering diploma while learning to design in my free time. And when I met the UX term, my engineering background became an important foundation in my career.
One of the greatest things about being a designer with an engineering background is that not only I can take care of the looks of a product, but can also fully understand, participate and even take care of the technical aspects of those projects.
I believe design and engineering go hand in hand toward creating amazing things.
In the free time, I share my love for design in the visual language, and making stuff for my side projects Awesome Figma Tips, Pafolios & VisualizemCC and creating music videos for fun.
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This site uses Helvetica Now Display and Scilla for the headlines and Merriweather for the body copy. Building with GatsbyJS, a headless CMS, based on Novela theme and hosting with Netlify.
Work experience
- Carousell, Product Designer, 2018-Present
- Leflair, UX Designer, 2017-2018
- Code Engine Studio, UI/UX Designer, 2014-2017
Side projects
- Awesome Figma Tips →
- Pafolios →
- Visualizem CC →
- Vidizai →
- Little Big Grid →
- Design Tips →
- Writing →
- Digital Garden →
- Reading →
Main craft
- Visual Design
- Prototyping
- Animation Design
- Design Systems
- User Research
- Data Analysis
- Logical Thinking
- Writing →
- Communication
Development
- CSS / SCSS
- GatbyJS / React
- Git, Netlify