Asher Wen

Strategist, Marketer, Nerd

Prevalent pain points for eCommerce

It feels good to finally be able to work on a laptop again!  The past few days has been hell.  I never thought how restless I would be without my device of choice.  Somehow a tablet or a smart phone just cannot replicate the tactile feeling of typing and seeing things on a screen for me.  Is this a sign of inadaptibility that I used to see in older folks?

My 5 year old MacBook Pro recently died an untimely death due to an unfortunate spillage accident.  I was lucky that only the motherboard was fried, but my hard disk drive was left fortunately unscathed.  As such, I managed to get back all my data and some system applications as well. Looks like I’m not going to give up on design as yet! [Read more…]

Stepping into Data Science.

This evening, I attended my first class in iDA’s MOOC Pilot for Data Sciences & Analytics Training at the National Design Centre.  I had first learnt of this pilot when I was considering a Masters in Business Analytics at NUS Business School and found out through Google that IDA was funding initiatives in Singapore to get people to pick up analytics.

Why was I even considering a Masters in B.A. in the first place? [Read more…]

Resolutions for 2015.

We are 9 days into the new year, and I still cannot believe we are already in 2015! The past year had gone by like a whirlwind, with little time to stop to think much about what I was doing, much less write about it.

With that said, I want to take this time as a chance to reflect on the past year and think about what I hope to achieve in the year ahead. It might be cliché, and there might be a growing movement of people against making new year resolutions because they are too hipster for their own good, but in my opinion, any reflection at all is better than none! So here goes… [Read more…]