For fourteen years I’ve organised and hosted PechaKucha Night Singapore, a non-profit night with one rule: 20 slides, 20 seconds each. We’ve had Bunnie Huang, Leslie Tay and Katja Forbes on that stage, alongside entrepreneurs, urban planners, architects and guitar techs.
Designing the future of finance
with craft and AI.
I’m Head of Design for the digital and data business of a multinational bank. My team designs the platform corporate treasurers work in every day, the applications our traders use on the floor, and the API marketplace our clients build on to embed banking into their own systems.
I’m known for building high performing design teams and coaching them: setting the standard, then giving people room to reach it. As a founding member of the bank’s Design Community of Practice, I helped set its design language system, its creative career path, and how design and engineering meet.
Twenty years in — an agency of my own in Tokyo, then the last decade in Singapore banking — I still hold to the same brief: simplicity, beauty, function.
Building with AI.
Kanji is a study you don’t finish, and I’m still at it — so I built the app I wanted for it. AI from the ground up, an 8-bit aesthetic, sized for a commute. I also turned learning MCP, agents and APIs into an immersive website, on the theory that the fastest way to understand a tool is to build something playful with it first.
Community & Craft
Through the Lens
When I step away from the screen, I love observing the world from behind a camera lens. You can explore my visual diary and personal photography collection over on my Flickr.
A sushi chef glides through a lantern-lit Japanese side street. Long-lens compression gathers the signs, bicycles and evening reflections around his quiet forward motion.
At a Singapore satay grill, smoke catches the overhead light and turns a practiced working gesture into theatre. Cool haze and ember warmth hold the frame in tension.
A portrait at Sum Yi Tai, framed by glowing birdcages and saturated red. The wide-angle viewpoint makes the room part of the character, while cyan silk cuts cleanly through the warmth.
Chief Taste Tester
My wife runs Tsumiki Bakery. I help out wherever a designer is useful — shooting the product photography, designing the menus and posters, and occasionally lobbying hard for a new flavour. No brief, no stakeholders, no roadmap. I’m paid in bread.
The Art of Espresso
I appreciate the exact science and tactile craft of a great cup of coffee. I hold barista certifications from Common Man Coffee for espresso and latte art, bringing the same rigor to my morning brew as I do to my design work.
