I approached Simone Ehrlich, who at the time was a Content Strategy manager contributing to the official Workday Design Blog on Medium. I offered to give her blog a recognizable style and to create supportive graphics visually explaining her concepts in a narrative way.
This was during the early days of COVID, so my initial illustrations were derived from scenes picked up from our regular Zoom calls and clearly reflect the times we were in.
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Sr. Visual Designer
UX Studio
Workday, 2020
Workday Design Medium Blog Illustrations
Design for Emotion with Mindsets Illustration
Emotions and mindsets are complex and difficult subjects. So when Róisín Bowden, a UX Researcher at Workday asked me to develop the graphics to visually communicate her article Design for Emotion with Mindsets I took an unorthodox approach.
My choice to present my graphics as needlepoint characters stemmed from my own emotional coping method during the COVID lockdowns of sewing as a distraction and to relax my mind. I believed it made the images more comforting and friendly in discussing a difficult topic during an equally difficult time
The concept was a hit with the team and I went on to recreate the characters and elements as hand-sewn needlepoint pieces. I then converted the pieces into graphics and presented the designs on a fabric background.
One can easily imagine the sewn characters coming to life on the fabric in a stop-motion piece… Well, maybe next time!
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Sr. Visual Designer
UX Studio
Workday, 2022
Characters Created by Nor Sanavongsay, Sr. Product Designer, Workday
Vichai is a beautiful illustrator and visual designer, and he is always so conscientious in his work. He has a great attention to detail, and thoughtfully incorporates content suggestions. He has illustrated a number of blog posts for the Workday Design blog, and his art always elevates the words it's associated with.”
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Amreen Ukani, Sr. Content Designer, Workday