Lionel Chin is the co-founder of Ripplewerkz, which is an all in one design house which offers high quality Web, Blog, Print and Corporate ID development. Boasting an impressive portfolio of projects such as Nuffnang, Prominent bloggers/Celebrities (eg. Allan Wu (The Amazing Race Asia), Wong Lilin (Mediacorp), Nico Chua (FM 933 DJ), Lunch Actually, Airtrade and The Eurasian Association (Singapore) etc, the name Lionel Chin certainly resonates in the digital industry.
5 Key Points
- A good portfolio is a must
Having good portfolio ensure the client to know us better and understand our skills and ability through the experiences we gained. We will more opportunities to task on as our portfolio speaks for us.
- The working environment of the outside world is very different from the school life
As we are still the students study in school, even if we are failed our work is still accepeted, however in the reality of the working environment of the outside world, we are not going to get a failed grade but to redo the whole thing until it is acceptable. Sometimes it is also hard to accept the fact that our work may be rejected even for a second try. As the expection of our client is very high, we are failed to hole the position if we do not meet their expection.
- Social Media tools is important
We need to learn how to make use of the Social Media tools to advertise ourselfs. As being a freelancer web designer, we need to show the quality of the website we can do for the client. Besides that Social Media tools also generates the traffic for our websites, it ensures the updates are noticed by the client and also easily apporach the costomer market and build up a regular customer base.
- Good to tart with a freelancer and progress into the agencies
From what the speaker says, being a freelancer web designer’s is whereby you can do the work individually and it is cheaper as to start a business and the better we are as more experiences we gained. We will become more confident as we join the agency later on and we can work more effectively with the help of our colleagueas to produce a quality work.
3 things that inspires me
- It takes time for us to adapt the working environment and we need to build a strong fundation of skill and keep ourselves up to date all the times in order to servive in this “keep changing”world.
- We need to learn how to advertise oursleves in making effective use of social media (RSS or Twitter).
- Generates traffic for our website is important as we need to learn how market our website to the public to make sure it apporaches the costomer easily.
My opinion on the usefulness of having a guest speaker share his expertise, experience and “tips and tricks” of the trade.
I think it is very useful to have a guest speaker to share his experinces and some good advises with us. As it provide us a opportunity to interact with the guest and gain knowledge from his speech. His speech also clear my doubts and curosity towards the working world. As a successful web designer he rised many significant points which could be very useful for those who dream to be a web designer in the future when they faceing the same situation. From his speech i have learned how the industry is today and what are the “tips and tricks” we need to keep in mind when we steps in the working world. Therefore i think the having aguest speaker is useful in overall and i looking forward for more speech like this.
