Writing
Posts, talks, and press — mostly on hardware UX and robots.
2026-08-27 · LinkedIn18 Claude Code skills for designers and planners, not developersSkills built one at a time on the job as organizing and coordinating came to rival drawing screens. Used every day, shared with the UX team.
2026-08-09 · LinkedInOne year at XYZJoined on August 4 last year. A look back at a year in which the market and product priorities kept changing.
2026-06-23 · LinkedInHRI class projects by Hongik University design engineering studentsBack at my alma mater as an industry judge for the HRI class showcase and as an alumnus at the program briefing.
2025-12-17 · LinkedInA career talk for 28 students at the Hansung Science High School gifted program"Making your own path: from engineering student to UX designer." Exploring a career means exploring yourself; wandering is a sign the questions have begun; trying beats certainty.
2025-07-30 · LinkedInClosing three years at Dot Inc.Looking back on three years that began with a cold message, wanting to work on hardware UX.- 2025-07-21 · LinkedInWhat kind of UX ______ do I dream of?After my Wanted UX Conference talk. UX is an attitude and a point of view; the blank is the skill I bring to the experience.
2025-07-11 · LinkedInThe hardware UX boom is comingThe day 'hardware UX' showed up in two Korean news headlines at once, and what the Samsung and LG stories signal.
2025-06-13 · LinkedInSpeaking at the Wanted Online UX Conference: designing your own career at the blurry edges of UX'Me?' On being scared by the speaker invitation, and what I wanted to share with people carrying the same questions.
2024-02-14 · LinkedInDot Canvas wins at CES 2024, and the first year of work behind itI joined Dot as a hardware UX designer, but the first year was mostly planning and designing the web and app services Dot Pad needed.
2024-01-19 · LinkedInSeolgyejadeul book study, February 2024: Robot UXRecruiting readers for a study of new UX paradigms for human-robot interaction design.
2023-04-27 · LinkedInNotes from CSUN 2023Joining Dot's CSUN 2023 team as the planning team's UXer at the assistive technology conference.
2022-10-12 · LinkedInPhil Libin's Two Week + Two Week product method, summarizedNotes on validating a product idea in two two-week blocks.- 2022-08-31 · LinkedInLooking for people to study hardware UX togetherWritten after the article roundup drew interest, to start a book study.
2022-08-26 · LinkedInArticles for anyone curious about hardware UXFour years of loosely exploring the hardware UX field, and the articles I collected to answer 'so what do you actually do?'
2022-07-30 · LinkedInADIO, my first-year grad school project, in the Ulsan Economic DailyA product study on bringing the experience of a paper book to audiobooks.
2022-07-01 · BrunchLetting go of two gloomy years in grad schoolA short trip to Namhae and a personal, emotional look back at two years of graduate school.- 2022-06-24 · LinkedInStarting my career as a UX/UI designer at Dot, a social venture, this JulyA first job at a hardware startup building devices for visually impaired users around a tiny braille module.