Category: Updates
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Rebels at Work Personal Stories
Brian Dys Sahagun Product Design Lead at Voyager Innovations and Founder of DysineLab What has been your most notable rebel accomplishment or experience? The user interface team at Chikka has managed to incorporate a vital step in the design process. Before, sketches and wire frames were sidestepped in the process of developing web products. Now…
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A way of helping the design community
We are all affected by this crisis. Some of us have been laid off and some of us have experienced even more difficulty in looking for work — whether it’s freelance or corporate. For us who have tried to leap and transition from one organization to another — during the crisis — it was such…
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Making Space for Empathy
As they say, we only improve what we measure. But we don’t measure what we don’t know. We don’t talk about empathy because it’s not a variable or a metric in any of our systems. So how can we make space for empathy in our programs as they continue to eat the world? PC Maffey…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…