Proof of Concept

1 week ago | proofofconcept.pub | David Hoang

For makers of software, Model/View/Controller (MVC) is one of the first concepts you learn. MVC is a design pattern that separates an application into three parts to organize code and make it easier to maintain. The Model handles data and business logic, the View manages the user interface, and the Controller acts as a middleman that processes user input and coordinates between them.

2 weeks ago | proofofconcept.pub | David Hoang

Growing up, my brother and I were avid video game players. Though we started with the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), we were a Sega family. I honestly can’t remember why. Maybe it was the marketing aimed at older kids, or the fact that Altered Beast—a game we obsessed over at our local Pizza Hut while redeeming Book It stars for personal pan pizzas—was exclusive to Sega. Or maybe it was simpler than that: Sega was 16-bit, and in my child brain, double the bits meant double the power.

3 weeks ago | proofofconcept.pub | David Hoang

Ben Blumenrose of Designer Fund recently wrote, It's a Historic Moment for Design Founders; With that, I hope it ushers a new era of design investors. Blumenrose, Soleio, and many other designers turn investors paved the way, but we need more in the ecosystem future generation. This is why Proof of Concept co-hosted an event with Bain Capital Ventures in their beautiful Jackson Square office: Angel Investing for Designers. I met Amanda Huang during my time at Replit, and she was at Adobe.

1 month ago | proofofconcept.pub | David Hoang

Last week, I posted online that millennials were built for Agent orchestration, comparing it to playing a Real-Time Strategy game. Claire Vo, CPO of LaunchDarkly and I joke a lot that we were built for management because of the hours of StarCraft II played growing up. Despite joking, it's valid and the skills you learn from playing such games are now very transferrable as we seemingly are controlling computers for work at a more advanced level.

1 month ago | proofofconcept.pub | David Hoang

The first WTF Series was WTF is a product designer? Due to the positive feedback, I figured it was time to bring it back with WTF is a Chief of Staff? At first glance, the title “Chief of Staff” (CoS) sounds like something out of The West Wing. Tech has a habit of borrowing roles from the military, and the CoS title originated in 19th-century Prussia. The Chief of the General Staff was the senior officer who supported the commander by managing strategy, planning, logistics, and coordination.