Design Pay Asia has opened up this year’s Design Pay Asia salary and report survey (link here), and I do hope we get more representation in the survey in other Southeast Asian countries so we can get a better overview of the design landscape in the ASEAN region 😁 The form closes on November 3 to make it in time for the end of the year (most likely to analyze and prepare the report)!

Also sharing to this side of the internet so I can cover all my bases 😆

This was taken yesterday at Design Week PH while I was waiting for mentees who wanted to do a folio review or wanted to ask questions about getting into or working in the UX Industry 😁

Thanks to Design Center of the Philippines and UXPH for the opportunity to pay it forward to the local design and tech community 😊

Chi smiling and seated behind a table with her name plate in front of her. Her vibrant floral crop top polo shirt stands out against the elegant decor, including suspended gold leaf decorations and patterned throw pillows.

I’m one of the mentors here at Design Center of the Philippines' Design Week PH for Folio Reviews 😊

They said walk-ins are allowed, so if you wanna check it out, I’ll be here the whole day 😄

2nd time in a row, special thanks to UXPH 😁

Chi’s name plate and placed on a table with her laptop behind it. The text on her name plate reads: “Chi Señires, UX Design Specialist, Home Credit PH”

Started using Anki this week to help me in reviewing sings for my Filipino Sign Language 1 (FSL 1) class. So far so good?

Thank goodness for ShareX and setting up videos as GIFs that can easily be pasted in the flashcards 😆

Stumbled upon this interactive comic about Spaced Repetition and it’s super cool and informative! I’m also really happy to see someone set up an interactive comic, I’ve wanted to do something like this in the past too 😄 (I know I can do it too, but I’ll need to fix my priorities first 😆)

As much as I wanna capitalize on sharing my writings everywhere (I just shared this post on Threads too), I still feel like sharing my blog posts on LinkedIn would seem out-of-place, even despite the numerous bullshittery I see there from people who are capitalizing on the reach you can get there 😆

Aaaaaaand eto na habagat na hila ata ng Enteng 😰 ang lakas ng hangin huhuhu

Reflections and thoughts on tracking "metrics", accomplishments, and impact as a UX designer

Every now and then, I find myself wondering if I’m consistently focusing on the wrong things or unnecessary things while working. I’m not one who constantly pours myself over conversion metrics or other KPIs or numbers I need to “track” as a means to measure my impact as a designer, but maybe I need to learn how to be?

Read More →

Obsidian pro-tip (and note to self): when embedding blocks from other notes, make sure there is an empty line before AND after your block notation.

So it should be…

[new line]
^like this
[new line]

with ample space(s) around it.

I was worried my weekly notes would forever have a bug for showing a certain section, until I simply added a new line underneath the block notation. It worked.

I wanna write more this month.

Seems like I’ve kept a habit going on for a few months now, albeit not that consistent, but at least i know every month I’ve gone back to my Obsidian

Screenshot of Chi's Obsidian folder labeled '06 TImestamps', which shows a directory for the year 2024, then inside it are folders from February to September without missing a month in between them.

Seems like there really are times where, no matter how much effort you put in, so long as it’s not to “their” ““standards”” or in the way it’s supposed to be indicated, people are unknowingly punished for their actions, even if you’re performing well beyond what you need to do.

Sigh, such is life.

Malware is a great game for showing you all the unique ways deceptive patterns can be hidden in installers 😂

Monthly, daily, hourly reminder to self that I want to do so many things yet I am only me

Balatro is now my latest obsession. 🎮

I know I have a lot of other things I wanna do… but… huhu games ;u;

Currently still in hibernating mode after my trip to Singapore. Before that, there was also our department’s team building 😆

Need rest after all that socializing and moving about 😴

Despite feeling a bit out of it and kinda staying within my comfort zone, today was a good first full day at Singapore.

I’ll do my best in the next coming days to get over my fear and just try out food at a hawker centre. 😆 I’m now more prepared and have actual cash in hand just in case hahaha

Staying in the hostel for now because I am still getting my bearings being in another country lol solo traveler moment 😆

I am technically here for Figma Config APAC as well, so I’ll just do a bit of design stuff on the side 😁

Going to Singapore later! 😄 First time ever. I’m setting up ways for me to take notes down both online and offline, in the hopes of having enough notes by the end of my trip to gather my thoughts and make myself a highlights recap. 😆

finally finished sorting through the stuff I hauled from my old unit! There’s still a big pile and bags of clothes that are set aside, but at the very least they’re all bundled up together. The rest of the things have been sorted to either trash, or for keeping somewhere. 😆