My name is Cheryl Chung. I’m a User Experience, Web Design & Development professional in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Welcome to my web portfolio!

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What is user experience?

This is a question people frequently ask me. What is it? What do I do at work? It seems that very little people have heard of let along understand what user experience (UX) and information architecture (IA) mean. These are little known subfields within web design and development that are nonetheless extremely important. I’m going [...]

Code snippet: Iterate slideshow counter without if/else statements

While scripting a jQuery slideshow gallery, I thought of a way of iterating the counter without needing to use an if/else statement to hard reset it to 0 when it reaches the end of the array. Then do something similar to step from the last slide back to 0. Nothing fancy with this snippet at [...]

Looking at the lack of privacy protection in social network Ads systems from a research perspective

Along with all the latest news about Facebook’s new privacy policies came this article from The Wall Street Journey on Facebook and MySpace now correcting a privacy loophole in their ads system. To summarize, apparently many of the social networks including Facebook, MySpace, LiveJournal, Hi5, Xanga and Digg used to (or are still) attaching username [...]

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