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On this part 1 of our mini series, we deep dive into each team at Agoda Design. Today, we have Travel Platform team with us and share their day to days as well as highlight and challenges.

When Dynin joined Agoda in 2015, there were only 5 designers in the design team. Starting out in his position as an individual contributor, he didn’t know that he was about to grow that same team to almost 50 designers as of today.Back then, there was a need to prove the additional value that our design organization can bring to the table, and he took on himself the mission and vision to make it happen.Discussing the meaning and implications of a team's maturity, in this episode 3 of the Design Explorers, Dynin Khem, our Design Director, is sharing the story and his perspective of the ongoing journey of scaling up our team.

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

On today’s episode we get to know our new co-host, Rachel. She has been working at Agoda for 5 years and will be sharing the story of her hiring experience compared to Yuki’s, and pre-pandemic vs. during. We also have announcements for upcoming episodes so make sure you stay tuned to the end!For any feedbacks or questions, feel free to contact us at: designexplorers@agoda.comLooking for design opportunities at Agoda? Check out careersatagoda.com

They are writing code but they're also using design tools and have a deep understanding of the user experience and the aesthetics. Design engineers are new and emerging roles that aim to close the gap between the worlds of design and code.Today we're talking with Sofian and Latte, two members of our design engineering team who are going to share with us more details all about that. 

Customer support agents at Agoda are working hard every day around the clock to provide our customers and partners any help they need. Their work processes and procedures can become really complex using different tools and handling many touch points. In our talk today, we discuss with Sabrina and Haeji how they help simplify and enhance our agents work through design, and what are some of the similarities and differences when you are trying to solve your colleagues problems? 

Behind the scenes of creating compelling experiences for our millions of customers, we’re designing and optimizing property partner management products to support complex business scenarios for the B2B side. Today we have Arash, Title, and Rachel from the enterprise team to share what is like to work on the various product under the umbrella of Enterprise team.

On this part 1 of our mini series, we deep dive into each team at Agoda Design. Today, we have Travel Platform team with us and share their day to days as well as highlight and challenges.

In this episode we interviewed Deven and Brie from design leadership to share their experience about relocation, design team culture and the growth opportunities in Agoda. We dived into what it’s like to work in Agoda as people manager and how they help shape the culture of the design team over the years. Last but not least, Deven and Brie shared the qualities we are looking for in a candidate during interviews.