Design Explorers by Agoda Design
Join the Design Explorers for 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. We're passionate about design and travel, and how they positively affect each other to inspire great work and unforgettable journeys. Check in to Design Explorers and you'll understand why!
Episodes
17 episodes
Enterprise team - Introducing Agoda Design teams #2
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 Rach...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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34:37
Travel Platform team - Introducing Agoda Design teams #1
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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Season 2
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Episode 6
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22:18
To join Agoda Design - Relocation, Growth, and match
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 ...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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26:24
Recruited by Agoda and Evolution of the Design Team
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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23:16
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 ...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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37:52
Alexis Collado - How to build successful communities
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 jou...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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59:07
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 dow...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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45:25
Season finale: How design explorers began and future plans
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, the...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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30:17
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 con...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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47:50
Empowering and building confidence through knowledge sharing
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 gui...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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46:44
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 Se...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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33:32
Meet Agoda's Design Engineers
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.T...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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15:12
Design mentorship at Agoda
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 m...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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28:22
Designing for our customer support agents
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 p...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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21:36
Scaling Design: From people to pixels
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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29:45
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, ...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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21:05
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 ...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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37:16