Author: Brian Dys
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First Day High
Woke up early morn scampering to find all the knickknacks that once filled up my backpack. I emptied it since March early this year and retired it into a forgotten corner of the house. The quarantine’s end wasn’t in sight, after all. All the things that I think I might need when in the office…
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Reading List: Week 3, November 2020
The hand and the brain Collaboration is a compounding investment: taken alone, each individual episode might not be optimal. Over time, the team learns and improves, gets more attuned to each other, uncovers surprising opportunities and novel strategies. That old saw: if you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far,…
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Reading List: Week 2, November 2020
Oh yeah, the reading list Exaggeration: why we make a mountain out of a molehill 8 Design Guidelines for Complex Applications Writing Better Self Reviews UXmatters Growing Your Career as a Multidisciplinary UX Designer, Part 2 Do not wait for the perfect career opportunity to come along. It’s often necessary to create rather than find…
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On Exaggeration
Grabe! One would exclaim in a local language (Tagalog) as exaggeration of a feeling or an event. It’s part of my daily expressions, and exaggeration is one I consider a great tool in my existential musings. It is not unlike a thought experiment or addressing edge cases in UX. Two persons are in danger, who…
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Reading List: Week 1, November 2020
[ntt_percept post=”over-the-probationary-period-hump-at-avaloq”] Oh yeah, the reading list How the Best Forecasters Predict Events My design systems reading list. Creating connections We spend hours, days, weeks, and months discussing and refining the perfect user experience for an app, yet we’re not that great in designing the experiences of our own lives? One thing COVID has proven…
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Over the probationary period hump at Avaloq
A couple of weeks since lockdown (nearing April), Jaycelle and I made this major decision — for the lack of better words — to level up. It was scary, indeed, because the pandemic surprised us all. Most companies halted their hirings yet there I was with an offer on the table. Fast forward to six…
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Brian Dys Artist Signature
Recently, I hopped on to Spotify as an artist. I released several electronica singles under the label Weet Weew. The experience was liberating in the sense that I’ve been putting it off for quite some time and finally got to grapple with it. I got to revisit some old compositions and reacquainted with a DAW…
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Reading List: Week 5, October 2020
Oh, yeah, the reading list Hindsight bias: the knew-it-all-along phenomenon However, the hindsight bias can be a barrier to rational thinking, and it can reduce our ability to learn from experience. If we always think we correctly predicted an outcome, how can we draw lessons from wrong decisions? Anne-Laure Le Cunff Copying (is the way…
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On copying and collaboration
One of the items in the reading list is about copying and how it is inherent to design (and child development, actually). As designers, we pride ourselves of our originality — personally, to the point of stubbornness. I recall a period in my career when I avoided looking at other people’s works as inspiration —…
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Sharing with the design community
Ever since I was welcomed in Amazing Design People List, I’m having more opportunities to help my fellow practitioners in the tech industry. It is by sharing what I know and what I’m experiencing that coincide with what they are exploring — commonly among them — navigating their way in or into the world of…