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Initial thoughts after UXPH Mini 2025

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It’s been around 2 weeks since UXPH Mini 2025 concluded and I have a lot of things to share–currently still drafting a blog entry for this XD—but I just want to attempt to get some initial thoughts out so I could post about it already hahaha

All 3 legs of UXPH Mini 2025 were great in their own ways. The fact that UXPH, CebUXD, and UX Davao all got together to plan this out and execute it is already a feat in itself.

It’s very easy to stick to the comfort zone of just holding events within Metro Manila all the time and having our peers from other regions in the country to figure out their way to go here, but to be able to bring the same conference experience (it’s supposed to be a “mini” but as Aldrich said, we scope creeped ourselves 😂) while making it unique to each region + to have done this set of events again—the first time this was done was in 2019 with the UXPH Roadshow—is a feat that I know only those who care about the community can do. It’s tiring work, but worth it nonetheless.

I’m also grateful I got to facilitate my workshop with UXPH, given that I do want more people to know about the things you can do with Prototyping in Figma Design (while it’s still a feature in the platform lol) and a lot of people did sign up and attend my workshops! All 3 workshop legs were full, and for each leg, the way I delivered the workshop evolved a bit in the hopes that I get to teach or share all the things I wanted to share during that time to everyone :)) I think I definitely can work better on containing the things I want to teach within the given time frame, or maybe save this kind of workshop if I do have more time to do so XD but either way, it was a great and fulfilling experience to go through, especially during the times people would be amazed that “wow, you can do that?” and see the awe in their eyes 😁

Super big kudos to everyone who made this happen! I don’t know how this would be topped in 2026 so that it’s not a “mini” anymore XD but I’m sure we’ll surprise ourselves with what we can achieve since we have so many talented people giving their time and paying it forward to the community 😄

lol this is supposed to be short but I guess it ended up being a mini blog post in itself :)) so here are some moments I’d like to share (for now the captions are in the title tags for these images, but I’m working on setting up markup for my blog to output these within <figcaption>s instead):

(this will be posted in a different order on social media for highlighting purposes but for the purpose of having the photos in order here, I’ll add a heading based on the particular leg 😆)

Davao leg

Chi doing a wide angle selfie with other workshop facilitators and speakers from UXPH Mini 2025: Davao. They are seen sitting on the floor of an auditorium while eating lunch in a group huddle setup.

Chi doing a wide angle selfie with the attendees of her workshop at UXPH Mini 2025: Davao in a computer lab classroom.

Group photo of the speakers, workshop facilitators, and the main organizers for UXPH Mini 2025: Davao. Chi is seated at the second row, helping hold up a black cloth flag with the UXPH logo printed on it.

Cebu leg

Richard and Chi posing near the stage for UXPH Mini 2025: Cebu, with both of them holding up their conference ID tags and their swag bags with the UXPH Mini branding printed on it.

Chi is standing in front of a small classroom, both her hands up as she explains what is shown on the big TV screen behind her, which is sharing her laptop’s screen with Figma open and the prototype preview overlay showing a modal within a phone frame. Attendees are positioned around and in front of her, with iMacs on each table and attendees also following along in Figma during the activity.

Chi doing a wide angle selfie with the attendees of her workshop while at UXPH Mini 2025: Cebu in a small classroom that was fully seated.

Manila leg

Chi posing in front of all 3 tarps for UXPH Mini 2025, with her arms stretched to the sides. The tarps behind her show, from left to right, the one for Manila, Davao, and Cebu legs.

Chi and Richard posing in front of the 3 tarps for the different legs for UXPH Mini 2025. Richard is by the left side of the Manila leg tarp holding up a peace sign, and Chi is on the right side with the Davao leg tarp. Both Chi and Richard are also holding on to their conference swag bags.

Chi posing next to her photo on her intro slide for her workshop with both her thumbs up. She is wearing a black cardigan only buttoned at the top, a polka dot top, black wavy slacks, and her conference ID lanyard. Her photo on the intro slide shows her in the exact same outfit, but only showing half body and with slightly shorter hair.

Chi is seated in front of a classroom, gesturing to her laptop that is projecting her screen, showing her fiddling with some prototyping interaction settings on Figma. To the right of the photo, an attendee is holding up their iPad that has Figma open, following along the workshop activities.

Chi is in front of a classroom, raising both her hands thumbs up and looking around the workshop attendees who are facing her. Attendees all have their laptops open and is seen following along what Chi is also showing on the screen.

Chi doing a wide angle selfie with all her workshop attendees posing behind her. The TV projecting the introduction slide for the workshop is also partially seen in the background.

Chi holding up her backpack that has 3 distinct 3d printed keychains on 3 different zippers, showing off the different conference tokens from the UXPH Mini 2025 legs. The top one is a green keychain for the Davao leg, the middle one is an orange keychain for the Cebu leg, and the bottom one is a purple keychain for the Manila leg.

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