Author: Brian Dys

  • Avaloq, Day 5

    It’s now complete — all of the objectives I’ve gotten onto my notes. Now comes the challenging part of putting it together — connecting the dots — making sense of it all. I’ll probably start making outlines and bullet points and eventually some framework for my first six months and beyond at Avaloq. The team,…

  • Avaloq, Day 4

    Today, the team and I had a smaller group of meet and greet along with our chapter lead who was directly leading the team before I came along. It was funny that suddenly, everyone’s device camera started malfunctioning when it was one’s turn to speak. Glad I took a bath today that I was able…

  • Avaloq, Day 3

    One by one, I’ve been filling in the blanks of my objectives in my first six months at Avaloq. I’ve already met with my line manager. Tomorrow, with my functional manager and chapter lead. Today, I met everyone in the design team — my team in Manila and everyone else across the globe. It is…

  • Avaloq, Day 2

    Today was sweltering, still. I had the morning onboarding at the balcony where the wind was gushing — and it was far better. During the afternoon, the sun was creeping in so I went back inside the home office. Let me just synthesize some of the memorable things that blotted in my mind during Minco…

  • Avaloq × BPI

    Avaloq is enabling the Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI), one of the Philippines’ biggest banks in terms of capitalization, with its Software as a Service (SaaS) solution to help improve customer experience and boost the efficiency of five business units and subsidiaries. Avaloq provides Software as a Service solution to help BPI shorten turnaround…

  • Avaloq, Day 1

    I said to a colleague that I felt like I’ve been with Avaloq for more than a year now because of the size of my email inbox. On day 1. But whoever said that email inboxes couldn’t receive mails on the first day, right? A third of it were warm welcome from my fellow designers…

  • Hyperlinking, Anyone?

    Got some recent discoveries lately pertaining to linking words and ideas. The great thing about these two tools is that they could export HTML files. TiddlyBlink “TiddlyBlink is an adaptation of TiddlyWiki with the goal of helping you see connections between your ideas, and move quickly from one idea to another.” Twine “Twine is an open-source tool for…

  • Adobe Color Wheel Game

    A measly 43! Try the game for yourself.