I'm Aliena welcome to a day in my life today starts 10 minutes before my first meeting I clean
up boil some water and quickly tidy up my desk to feel less guilty about getting up this late
it's 10 a.m and I'm opening up the zoom link and reading the meeting instruction at the same time
this is an optional research share out session about web 3.0
I ask at least seven questions here I am so excited to learn that the future of advertising
could be very different from now and could be highly dependent on content creators the meeting
is over now I need to do some design work I work for eBay advertising and today I need to bring
two more features to the advertising campaign detail page the problem has been discussed a
thousand times with a thousand stakeholders so I have a clear solution in mind but before
jumping into the figma file just one more check I ask myself is my proposed solution intuitive
is my proposed solution consistent with the other parts of the products yes and yes great now I can
happily open up a YouTube video on the side and make the figma changes UI design actually takes up
the least time in my work because we have a design system and now I just need to find the right
component and bring it to my file communicating before the UI design stage it's worth time and
energy consuming done I ask myself is this figma page easy to understand for front-end engineers
nope so I go ahead and make a few annotations and send a screenshot in the link to my pm and
to the jira ticket yay I've just finished doing the main job for today now it's time for brunch
I find this idea of brunch very interesting I'm sure it's created by another lazy person
who just happens to wake up too late for breakfast but still wants to eat breakfast
yeah I call this French toast and I call this matcha it's afternoon now back to work
I know people like to get to inbox zero I do that too but just because I get to inbox zero
doesn't mean I've absorbed any information emails especially email threads to me are
terrifying so I scan through all the emails and I decide to close read just one of them
about the analytics report* of the product that I'm working on it's a pretty heavy read
so I actually copy the email to a notion page and then slowly highlight through the numbers
and the messages and soak my mind in the ocean of user complains nah just kidding analytics report*
and I summarize a few things that are important and suggest what our team can do next and send
it to the email thread now the email thread is even longer for another person to read
I'm bored I need to go out I'm trying to find a place that has free wi-fi I usually go to a cafe
but since I already had matcha I would just go to a library and since I'm feeling really really cold
I need to do one group of Chloe Ting exercise to unfreeze myself now let's go working from home to
me means working from anywhere and I love it I love having the freedom to explore more places
and when I'm in a new place I get inspired to do better work the hard part though is to get
the foot outside the door because staying at home wearing pajamas and having a monitor just feel way
easier than finding a cafe or Library getting dressed and going out but from my experience
going out is worth it especially because my work requires creativity and inspiration
here I reply to slack messages and read the one pager for another project that I'm working on
I also read one chapter of a book that my friend sent me I'm reading how to be a bawse
by Lilly Singh today I'm grateful and inspired by these trees and this new book I just got [Music]
for dinner I'm making salmon and veggies it is edible
you guys voted to watch how to learn a job from Google ux certificate so I film it
and finally starting from 8 30 PM I work part-time for a startup today I meet with
the other designer and co-work for two hours on our minimum viable product MVP I'm having
two laptops here because one is for a work laptop for eBay and the other one is my personal laptop
now that all meetings are done let me check when do I need to get up tomorrow
I just saw my tomorrow morning meeting starts at 8 00 a.m 8 A.M