Chia is 21 and studying Computing & the Arts at Yale, from Manila. They are a creative technologist creating radical systems for creators and communities in pursuit of making creation ubiquituous, as the internet age had given them.
Chia loves the internet, design theory, and Car Seat Headrest. This website is a showcase of work (design, development, & writing), in-depth process, strange passion, and more.
I'm shy, but I would love to meet you.
Some Work
Iboto.ph
Designing a voter education campaign and platform for the Philippine masses, reaching millions.
Campaign Web
Developh
Nurturing community for over 150,000 young creators & technologists in Southeast Asia since 2016.
Community Brand Experience
Kumu 2021
Building out the Filipino creator economy through livestreaming, gaming, and metaverse-building.
Mobile Product Design Systems
Last.fm Mobile
Playing around with an old favorite music service that empowers streaming with data.
Mobile
Chias.blog
My five-year-old blog where I often share non-technical thoughts and be a pretend music journalist. Publishing every week or so.
Writing
Interactive Fiction
Vignettes and fictive pieces.
Experience Writing
Visuals
Curated collection of graphic design work.
Graphic Design
Technology.ph
I write and publish a newsletter about Philippine innovation, startups, and tech.
Writing Growth
The Punishing
The shape of the web bends, deepens, and constricts itself to destroy the most vulnerable.
Writing
hot emo gf
Streaming design, games, and development on Twitch. (That's Sufjan Stevens.)
pls follow meQuote Tweets
Exploring and fixing up quote tweets over a week-long program at the Twitter HQ in Summer 2019.
WebChia's Blog
In high school, I wrote a novel over winter break. In 2021, I'm writing 25,000 words a week. If all things work out, I hope to have a million words out by the end of the year.
Highlights
In Defense of Disorder On Life The Web in Decay On Design Angkas: A State, Some Motorcycles, & A Startup On Startups Hu Tao Character Analysis Extensive Anime EssayLatest
Other
Partial everything, selected and recovered. Experiments and a larger collection of work across writing, games, visual play, newsletters, subcommunities, and other things I have created.