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Agoda's design team podcast "Design Explorers" features great talks on various design topics.
Join us on a journey into the world of design for travel, and hear the stories behind the creative work from Agoda’s design team. Each episode features our candid thoughts, insights, and experiences in product design at our global digital travel platform, where you can book hotels, vacation rentals, and flights worldwide.
Season 1 ・ Episode 2 ・ Culture, Design
Design for complexity and scalability
Is there a real difference between design for B2B vs design for B2C? How do enterprise designers simplify the complexity of big problems?Join us for episode 2 of the Design Explorers in which we are joined by Mehak Sharma and Hanxi Lee, two of our Senior UX Designers at Agoda, to better understand the interesting and complex world of our supply partners through their work on hotel-facing products.
Season 1 ・ Episode 1 ・ Culture, Design, Working at Agoda
Useable and meaningful data in the design process
Can data play a meaningful role in design solutions and processes – or should designers stick to experience and visuals, and leave dealing with data to math people? Join us as we explore these questions and more with Design Manager Joshua Zhou and Senior UX Designer Javier Lo, who together actually tried making data relevant to our design team. Did they succeed? Find out.Episode notesBook recommendation: A Practical Guide to Designing with Data by Brian Sudahttps://www.amazon.com/Practical-Guide-Designing-Data-ebook/dp/B0058ZWZ8C
Season 2 ・ Episode 3 ・ Culture, Design
Getting alignment & building trust with our stakeholders
Our guest today is Yuiko Majima, a senior product designer at our team who works on our customer experience group internal tools, where she gets to manage different stakeholders and to work with different parts of our business.Yuiko is here today to share with us how she manage and work with so many stakeholders and her interesting and quite unique background in sales and project management, before transitioning into design.
Season 2 ・ Episode 1 ・ Culture, Design
Design workshops - why the journey is the destination
Design workshops have become a very popular activity designers love to initiate as a great tool for solving all sorts of problems or coming up with new ideas.But the true power of workshops and what make them really successful is lay down in their process and engagement with the different activities rather than the outcome or end results they were originally designed to achieve.In our opening episode for season 2 of Design Explorers, Yuki and I have sat down to learn from Danyao how she use design workshops for stakeholders alignment and bringing in all the different perspectives and domain knowledge from individuals within product teams to better define problems and discover new possibilities.
Season 1 ・ Episode 9 ・ Culture, Design
The Figma Migration - One tool to rule them all!
In this episode we are talking with Alex and Fendy about how they managed and led our design team migration from using a few several design tools such as Sketch, Zeplin and others into the Figma experience.Figma is now considered as the de facto tool for product and interaction design, and in recent years, it took the world of design by storm.Alex and Fendy worked with our designers to make sure this migration could go smooth enough without interrupting their work.Tune in to learn how they did that as they share those learnings and more insightful stories.
Season 1 ・ Episode 7 ・ Culture, Design
Leveraging design thinking for work processes enhancement
As our design team started to grow and scale, the need for enhanced processes and workflows to support our day to day jobs and the way we collaborate began to emerge.In todays episode we discuss with Anita and Eark, two of our Senior Product Designers, how they discovered and realized that need, and how they have used their design skills to help improve the way we work together.By identifying some of the pain points and roadblocks that our design teams and individual designers are facing, they've developed frameworks and workflows to help mitigate some of these issues to ensure we provide a consistent and optimized users experience for our customers and partners.