Design for a Better Philippines

I learned at this UXPH event that to understand that you must take a huge chunk of consideration the user's habits, experiences, habitat and behavior when designing an effective UX design. As a UX designer, you must defend the user's perspective, rather than metrics and etc.

UXPH events are great. I'm grateful I had the chance to hear experiences from amazing people, and it's somewhat refreshing to hear people speaking about different perspectives!

I like how the speakers gave detailed insights about the different roles that make up a design team (especially the UXR role!). It gave more structure to my current knowledge as I'm a newbie in the UX industry. I'm in my 5th month working as a product designer in a startup (career shifter also) and doing both research and design has been very overwhelming, so I'm really looking for direction. I'd love to join more forums with UXPH!

I really appreciate that UXPH put together a free event like this and that the speakers were generous of their knowledge and experience. A couple of months ago, we researched as much as we could on designing for VR and your groups were the only ones who were able to provide the information that we needed, which could apply to us here in the Philippines. I have mad respect for you guys!

As a student who is just starting to explore on my career options, the panel discussion on "Shaping Your UX Career" broadened my understanding of the UX industry. It was especially nice to know the origin story of each speaker, and how each of them were from different fields and just transitioned to UX. This proves to me that it is never too late to pursue anything as long as you choose to do so.

Thank you so much for hosting these community events! I want to be a UX designer and finding UXPH has helped a lot to find resources and people I can look up to.