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The Most Common Question My Students Ask “How to start a Design Thesis Project?

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on September 9, 2025September 9, 2025

“Struggling to start your big project? Discover the surprising first step that every student overlooks—until now.”

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Summer activities in Toronto for creative souls

  • by Jin Cao
  • Posted on August 28, 2025August 28, 2025

A creative guide to Toronto summer activities that goes beyond the usual tourist spots.

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Discipline Isn’t Necessary If I Don’t Have This

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on August 26, 2025August 25, 2025

I spent years building discipline muscles. Then I discovered what actually comes first.

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Why Professional Connections Actually Need Personal Chemistry

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on August 21, 2025August 21, 2025

Forget “keep it professional” advice – the best work relationships happen when you click as people first

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Stop Building Presentations Like Buildings: advice from a non architect

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on August 5, 2025August 5, 2025

How a biologist turned career advisor discovered that the best architecture presentations follow the same rules as successful scientific observation.

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Procrastination has a new name: Lateral Thinking

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on July 24, 2025July 24, 2025

one month to finish all my projects before the Labour Day

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Am I a consumer or a creator?

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on July 15, 2025July 15, 2025

Hint, it is not about eating.

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When Empty Parks Meet Housing Crisis: A Runner’s Uncomfortable Truth

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on July 10, 2025January 6, 2026

How an empty park turned me into the NIMBY I never thought I’d become

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Scoop and Chill

  • by Guest
  • Posted on June 26, 2025January 6, 2026

Ice cream and interior design or both?
Here are the top 3 spots to check out in Toronto as we are heading into August!

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What strategies do you use to cope with negative feelings?

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on June 24, 2025January 3, 2026

I have two very different approaches: good and bad.

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13 things mentally strong designers do and don’t

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on June 12, 2025June 12, 2025

Designers are like marathon runners.

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The Strange Math of 5,000 Friends and Zero Real Connections

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on June 10, 2025June 9, 2025

How I Accidentally Became a Professional Contact Collector

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The Day In The Life Of An Architecture Intern

  • by Guest
  • Posted on June 3, 2025June 3, 2025

What every design school graduate discovers when theory meets concrete reality

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What is inclusionary zoning(IZ)?

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on May 22, 2025May 22, 2025

It is time to redesign our city!

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The Stranger Effect: Why That Person Everyone Mentions Could Change Your Life

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on May 20, 2025May 20, 2025

A step by step approach to turning a stranger into meaningful connection

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Problem Solving Is Overrated (I Should Know, I Teach It)

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on May 15, 2025May 14, 2025

Confessions of a Design Thinker: Discovering Systems Thinking revealed the surprising truth about inefficiency in my Problem Solving technique.

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Small Tips for Getting a Better and Simpler Life

  • by Guest
  • Posted on May 13, 2025May 13, 2025

Time to get back to discipline practice you promised yourself back in January!

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Can You Bee-Live It’s Spring? How to Spring Clean & Decorate

  • by Guest
  • Posted on May 6, 2025May 6, 2025

How designers spring clean

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Big progress from small progress

  • by Guest
  • Posted on May 1, 2025May 1, 2025

Progress compounds. Tiny steps build surprising momentum.

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The Weird Time Warp of AI Writing: Why My ‘Quick Drafts’ Now Take Longer Than Ever

  • by Onah Jung
  • Posted on April 29, 2025

Less writer’s block, more decision fatigue.

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