Hi everyone, in this blog, I will provide a step by step guide on how to make an isometric design in Figma and that too without any plugin!

Isometric Designing in Figma

https://medium.com/design-bootcamp/isometric-designing-in-figma-32c324472a1a

Returning from China at the start of 2024, I was full of hope and energy after reconnecting with my friends, knowing that I was missed and loved by many. Soon, it took a sharp downturn.

2024 Year in Review

On Copilot+ PC Launch

https://charlsyang.com/blog/on-copilot-plus-pc-launch

Charlsy Yang

Posts.cv Community Icon | Figma

https://www.figma.com/community/file/1462646585205505955/posts-cv-community-icon

鄧麗君 小城故事

In Praise of Disposable Camera

https://charlsyang.com/blog/in-praise-of-disposable-camera

digest.gallery

Don't forget why you became a designer

https://read.cv/alicetragedy/dont-forget-why-you-became-a-designer

Posts/Read.cv Memorial Sticker

TIL you can do isometric in figma without any plugin, like in 2 steps?? it blows my mind that i still don't understand how it works https://medium.com/design-bootcamp/isometric-designing-in-figma-32c324472a1a

2024 Year in Review https://charlsyang.com/blog/2024-review

no one needs to read an almost 3k words essay, but the process of writing it has been therapeutic and healing!!

Worklingo: feel free to do = do exactly as I told you to

Maybe because I am now so painful at working on something I don’t like I felt extra happiness helping someone find a job that really resonated with their background and interests, so happy

is it still my value if i have barely embodied the value yet

radio group/single select is one of those things that are way too complicated to prototype in figma than in code

i figured out a quick hack to get touch cursor in figma prototype without device frame: pop open the inspector, find the parent <div> of the main <canvas>, and change the class name from “cursor-default” to “cursor-touch”

want to work at a place that affords and rewards care

noticed that i tend to put more content into a slide when i make slides with figma vs with keynote. wondering how much of that is due to figma’s inability to easily rearrange slides or just me being so comfortable in figma that the focus on design trumps storytelling

TIL you can fake a path animation (i.e. shape moving along an arc instead of a straight line) with smart animate by nesting the shape in a frame and rotating the frame

ramp has turned the SF caltrain station into ketchup and mustard lol real aggressive campaign

having an unusual name has served me well charlsy.cv 😎

hello world! hangin out in this cool new place😋

realized i’ve read and written very little recently and that’s probably what makes me feel unrooted

Is there an “Obsidian for pdf/epub”? doc/book reader or library manager based on local files not proprietary format

i don’t want to make a small part of a big thing, i just want to make a big part of a small thing

an interesting find at the bottom of the shelf during a weekend trip to the bookstore

My accounting app categorized Safeway as transportation LOL

Fighting the urge not to purchase more physical books

saw someone asking for community icons so i published mine, so happy and honored to have contributed!! 

https://www.figma.com/community/file/1462646585205505955/posts-cv-community-icon

smol experiment 

https://mgx.me/kirby-vs-this-blog-post

read the email rn. here goes my last post.

https://youtu.be/Bgi5f_0atGE

you should try if you haven’t! it’s fun

https://charlsyang.com/blog/in-praise-of-disposable-camera

i thought component property has been around forever while absolute positioning and select matching layers are more recent addition but turned out they came out roughly the same time ~2 years ago...🫨

wrote an essay about creator tools and media environments! https://connie.surf/declaration.html

updated the calendar one day early so i can show off @hannahlee ‘s beautiful artwork of my birthday month on here

I THINK I WOULD LIKE TO UPDATE THIS SOON!! IT IS PAST MY BEDTIME RIGHT NOW!! I DID NOT ADD AN OG IMAGE!! SORRY ANDY!! LOVE U ALL SO MUCH!! THANK U FOR EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!! https://digest.gallery/

why modern design job entails so little of design

i turned on the screen distance thing on my iphone and ive never cursed so much using my phone no wonder its in the screen time section

i am dedicating my life to correct every dumb  quote i see in my job

hey y’all can find me on these other places but not sure i'd post as much :`) 

bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/charlsyang.com

linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlsyang

Well, I guess the one thing that apparently gave my procrastinating butt a big old push to finish a post I'd started 2.5 years ago was Posts dying 🫠

https://read.cv/alicetragedy/dont-forget-why-you-became-a-designer

“think of the impact you could make” lol

not me tossing my duvet cover and bed sheet into the washer and yelling: “send them out to clean!!”

I've teamed up with @charlsy's to print these beaut memorial stickers, full credit to him, I'm just coughing up some dough. 

They're actually being printed on metal, so they're gonna look delicious. ✨👌 Only 50 available, totally free, so be quick: https://tally.so/r/mBj7z5

nobody:
apple: *adds blur to every transition*

So you should view this fleeting world - 
A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream,
A flash of lightning in a summer cloud,
A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream.




Goodbye Posts, I will miss you.

some time ago i did a lil unsolicited redesign of the perplexity sidebar and now it actually feels relevant to share here (for the known sad reason)

could be the footer for your exported cv site