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paul.hanaoka.co

Brief, witty bio — a small, but noteworthy achievement.

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Hotkey Design

What are hotkeys? Keyboard shortcuts , often called 'hotkeys', are keys or combinations of keys that perform an action in a digital product…

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Stripe is one of those companies every designer dreams about working for — so of course I jumped at the opportunity to be interviewed for their latest issue of Increment! Check it out online at increment.com.

Email in 2020

It's been close to 20 years since my dad made me my first email account — the_splitsecond@juno.com — I don't have access to it anymore, I…

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4 years ago

Quarantine Beverages: Beer

girl in red and brown sweater wearing white and blue headphones

4 years ago

Our last family trip BQ (Before Quarantine) — Octocat FTW

How Should Designers Learn to Code?

Part 2: Git, HTML/CSS, Engineering Principles

In Part 1 , I explained the basics of the terminal, shared a few productivity hacks to get you started, and how to choose a code editor. In…

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4 years ago

How Should Designers Learn to Code?

Part 1: The Terminal And Text Editors

For the purpose of this two-part series of articles, we're going to assume the answer for "Should designers code?" is "It depends." If you…

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4 years ago

woman in black jacket and blue denim jeans standing beside brown tree during daytime

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A small boy finds his home.

Gatsby Days LA: A Love Story

If you’ve followed me for any length of time on Twitter , you’ve probably seen multiple professions of love for Gatsby . When I…

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4 years ago

outdoor basketball court near body of water

5 years ago

A basketball court with an amazing view — near the Korean Friendship Bell in San Pedro.

a bird sitting on top of a table in a dark room

5 years ago

At the Broad in LA — the water fountains on the second floor are really well lit.

person standing near sofa and facing paintings

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The Impact of Performance on User Experience

Summary Performance issues of any kind can come at a high cost and can affect almost every metric — from task abandonment to lower adoption…

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Design At Scale: One Year With Figma

Note: This article was originally published by Smashing Magazine on April 15, 2019 Whether you’re a designer or developer, it can be…

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Netlify vs. Zeit vs. Github Pages

The Liferay Design team made regular use of Liferay’s developer-centric deployment platform, WeDeploy. Static sites like our primary domain…

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5 years ago

Creating Atomic Components That Will Blow Your Mind

Special thanks to Jamie Street , Jimmy Musto , Jens Johnsson , Sergi Viladesau , Princess Buttercup , and all the fine folks at…

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5 years ago

A friend gave me a book called Logo Modernism, we keep it on our coffee table, one day my son was turning the pages and I snapped this when he got to “E”.

Brand Updates at Liferay

What is Liferay DXP? I’m sure you’ve asked yourself this question. I’m even more sure you’ve heard someone else ask this question. If we as…

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5 years ago

New Team, Assemble!

The beginning of November marked my first year as Liferay's UX Design Manager for North America. As Design organizations are wont to do, we…

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6 years ago

We were walking through the new Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, and saw this cute flag outside one of the bookstores — I couldn’t decide which shot was best, so I’m sharing two. I like that this one is slightly abstract, it takes you a few seconds to realize what you’re looking at — I think.