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Agoda design team – Enterprise

Design Explorers by Agoda Design - February 16, 2023 13:00 - 34 minutes
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...

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Enterprise team - Introducing Agoda Design teams #2

Design Explorers by Agoda Design - February 16, 2023 13:00 - 34 minutes
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...

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Travel Platform team - Introducing Agoda Design teams #1

Design Explorers by Agoda Design - September 27, 2022 08:00 - 22 minutes
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.

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Travel Platform team: Introducing Agoda Design teams #1

Design Explorers by Agoda Design - September 27, 2022 08:00 - 22 minutes
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.

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To join Agoda Design - Relocation, Growth, and match

Design Explorers by Agoda Design - August 12, 2022 05:00 - 26 minutes
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 ...

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Recruited by Agoda and Evolution of the Design Team

Design Explorers by Agoda Design - July 06, 2022 07:00 - 23 minutes
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! Fo...

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Getting alignment & building trust with our stakeholders

Design Explorers by Agoda Design - May 12, 2022 05:00 - 37 minutes
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 s...

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Alexis Collado - How to build successful communities

Design Explorers by Agoda Design - April 04, 2022 09:00 - 59 minutes
In our show today we are talking with Alexis Collado, Co-Founder and Chief Design Officer at Swarm - a trust-based community of builders, founders, and investors collaborating on awesome projects. Alexis takes us through his inspiring journey from when the time he used to be an intern at Agoda,...

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Design workshops - why the journey is the destination

Design Explorers by Agoda Design - March 03, 2022 02:00 - 45 minutes
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 acti...

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Season finale: How design explorers began and future plans

Design Explorers by Agoda Design - December 15, 2021 04:00 - 30 minutes
In this 10 and last episode of season 1 of Design Explorers, Nahum & Yuki sat down for a recap and talk about how the idea of the podcast actually began. Sharing their personal stories and experiences so far, they discuss some of their learnings as well as their struggles along the way, and how...

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The Figma Migration - One tool to rule them all!

Design Explorers by Agoda Design - November 03, 2021 00:00 - 47 minutes
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 ...

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Empowering and building confidence through knowledge sharing

Design Explorers by Agoda Design - September 27, 2021 02:00 - 46 minutes
Design Studio is a dedicated platform for knowledge sharing between the more experienced designers and new joiners or anyone who is facing different challenges with their work and projects in our design team at Agoda. By providing practical guided frameworks and inspiring use cases, more seasone...

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Terra Squad Footwork Company

Icons: Chicago Dance Industry Podcast - September 06, 2021 19:10 - 50 minutes
Check out early access to ICONS: Chicago as host Jovon Pavielle discusses the Chicago dance community with dance ICON Aaron Neal (AG) of Terra Squad Footwork Company.  "What Have You Done" the official theme track for #IconsChicago audio/visual podcast by DJ Solo premiering on the HausHill Ent...

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ICON Theme Track (by DJ Solo)

Icons: Chicago Dance Industry Podcast - September 04, 2021 00:14 - 3 minutes
The official theme track for #Icons audio/visual podcast premiering on the HausHill Entertainment network on Friday, September 17, 2021. This podcast highlights the underground and commercial dance communities of the greater Chicagoland areas. If you are in the Chicagoland area and have a hi...

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Leveraging design thinking for work processes enhancement

Design Explorers by Agoda Design - August 30, 2021 03:00 - 33 minutes
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 nee...

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Meet Agoda's Design Engineers

Design Explorers by Agoda Design - July 30, 2021 07:00 - 15 minutes
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 o...

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Design mentorship at Agoda

Design Explorers by Agoda Design - July 06, 2021 02:00 - 28 minutes
Getting good and inspiring guidance in the beginning of our career is crucial for our success to become great designers. That is where mentors plays such an important part in our journey. Today, we're joined by Rachel and Pang, a mentor and a mentee, who gonna share with us their mutual mentorsh...

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Designing for our customer support agents

Design Explorers by Agoda Design - June 01, 2021 11:00 - 21 minutes
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 an...

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Scaling Design: From people to pixels

Design Explorers by Agoda Design - May 05, 2021 01:00 - 29 minutes
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 ...

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Design for complexity and scalability

Design Explorers by Agoda Design - March 30, 2021 12:00 - 21 minutes
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 unders...

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Useable and meaningful data in the design process

Design Explorers by Agoda Design - March 09, 2021 04:00 - 37 minutes
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 actua...

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#7 - I Hate Chicago

Mary Collie and Rick - March 07, 2021 21:48 - 1 hour
We talk about how Chicago will never be as whimsical to me as NYC is to Carrie Bradshaw.


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#5 - Toxic Theatre Programs

Mary Collie and Rick - March 01, 2021 01:55 - 1 hour
We talk about toxic academia and how theatre programs can create lasting damage for young artists.   


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#3 - Breast Reduction 1 Week Post Op

Mary Collie and Rick - February 15, 2021 03:17 - 1 hour
We talk about being 1 week post op from breast reduction.    



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