Danny Chen

Danny Chen @danny_chen

About: 🏳️‍🌈 A Pioneer of UX/Design Engineering 🎨👨‍💻 | The Father of Modern Visual Indicators 🔗✅✅◻️◻️◻️

Location:
Singapore
Joined:
Jan 3, 2025

Danny Chen
articles - 45 total

UX Engineering: From the Eyes of a Field Pioneer (2026 Edition)

What is UX Engineering? UX Engineering is the technical discipline of building and...

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Here's Why I Have Chosen to Leave the Design Industry in Singapore

Hey everyone! I suppose you can say that this article has been in the works since 2016. Yeah, I began...

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We are here to announce officially that our pronouns are now "we/us", "they/them". We are a collective of FIVE DISTINCT brothers. We are done hiding ourselves from the world. #comingout🏳️‍🌈 #we #us

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Let Me Tell You a Story About the Origins of the Humble Breadcrumb and Visual Indicators as We Know It Today

Let me start by first asking you a question, "What do you know about the origins of the humble...

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Thank you to the DEV Community team & the whole community itself for allowing folks like me to have a way to share my voice. Today, I just got featured among the "Top Voices in the UX Industry" by Dan Maccarone of UX Collective.

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Production-Ready? Really?? Or Just Copious Amounts of Glue & Duct-Tape? | The Lovable Reality Check

Scene: Monday morning. A parent tries to book their child into “Math Excellence Tuition Centre.” The...

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From User to Builder: How I Built a PageBuilder in 5 Weeks

Personal Note & Opening Hey guys, it has truly been a minute since I've actually truly...

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Satori UI | PageBuilder v1.0 - Development Done

Hey everyone! I want to apologise for my most recent disappearance and silence. Let's just say that...

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3 Reasons Why I Stuck with Progress Telerik for 19 Years

Hey guys, so my Award as a Telerik Champion has finally arrived today. While this is my second year...

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I'm currently taking an Intermission/break from posting and sharing so that I can focus more on my work and studies. My part-time studies is in the final stretch, so I need to give it my full attention. #takingabreak

A post by Chen Weizhi

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The Power of Thinking..."I CAN"

First off, I need to admit that despite my years of experience working on so many projects, there is...

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How I (Almost) Outsourced My Brain to Gemini Pro

"Have you ever been so reliant on a tool that you forgot how to function without it? Yeah, me...

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Here's Why You Should Still Care About Creating Wireframes

Recently, on LinkedIn, I've been seeing the posting from Duolingo's team about how they have decided...

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The AceIt Journey: UI Prototyping at a Sloth's Pace 🦥 (and That's Okay!)

Question: "When was the last time you gave yourself permission to truly savor the process of building...

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Allow Me to Introduce AceIt, My Next Showcase Project

I began rebuilding my next portfolio (V2.0) with several objectives. One of those is that I wanted to...

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Here's Why I'm (Re)Building a New Portfolio as a UX Engineer

I've told this story perhaps one too many times, but somehow, I kept telling it repeatedly. Maybe I'm...

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I don't think I've admit this out loud before. But in very much the same way as I'm (re)building my next portfolio ver. 2.0, I'm also trying to rebuild the momentum I had lost as a freelancer. I've stopped taking on full-scale projects for too long.

A post by Chen Weizhi

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It was never about chasing that next job title. What started out as a desire to prove others wrong, and to become the best, eventually evolved into pushing myself to become the best that I can be at what I do. And now, that work will continue.

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AI isn't Here to Replace People, and the Top 1% Percent Agrees.

There has been so much discussion going on in the online forums and backrooms of companies about how...

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https://medium.com/@devtodesign/tick-tock-code-unlocked-my-journey-building-a-customizable-pomodoro-timer-called-focusflow-6fc5c270bf8b | My official round-up on my work this past week.

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Crushing the Responsive Beast: Crafting a Pixel-Perfect UI through Effective Buttery Smooth-Scaling

Part One: Experimentation & Proof-of-Concept for UI Smooth-scaling Hey guys, it's been...

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https://wp.me/pe6Dgq-1Ni - I'm hoping to use my newfound popularity, voice and platform to shed the spotlight on various issues and challenges that devs/engineers might be facing in the industry right now. Is there something you'd like me to shed light on?

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Finding My Voice: From Self-Doubt to Recognition in UX Engineering and FED

I promise to keep this one short today. Have you ever seen the image about how a bamboo needs 5 years...

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What projects are you working on this week? Any interesting challenges to solve?

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The ProgressBar from Hell | How I Tamed a Circular ProgressBar using SVG and CSS Animations

"Ever lost an entire weekend wrestling with a CSS animation that won't to cooperate?" Yeah, I feel...

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3 Lessons I was Reminded of While Building a Pomodoro-inspired Web App

"What are your go-to strategies for keeping your code clean and maintainable? Share your tips in the...

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Firebase Studio (formerly known as Project IDX) is a GAMECHANGER 🔥🔥🔥!!

It is not very often (as a matter of fact, it is quite rare) that you will find me exploring, let...

Learn More 2 1Apr 16

Today, I was reminded of everything that I had to endure and overcome to get to this very moment. For me, this will always be a reminder to appreciate where I am today, and to make the most of every single moment that I have now.

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React, Angular and Vue | So, where does one begin?

After having spent the last two decades of my career pursuing my own passion for UX and front-end...

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Whether it's design, code, or even my technical writing, I've always believed that less is always more. Sometimes less means keeping the design simple, other times, it means focusing on quality instead of quantity.

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