Design Explorers by Agoda Design

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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!

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Enterprise team - Introducing Agoda Design teams #2

Feb 16 2023 34 mins

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.

Travel Platform team - Introducing Agoda Design teams #1

Sep 27 2022 22 mins

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.

To join Agoda Design - Relocation, Growth, and match

Aug 11 2022 26 mins

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

Recruited by Agoda and Evolution of the Design Team

Jul 06 2022 23 mins

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: [email protected]

Getting alignment & building trust with our stakeholders

May 11 2022 37 mins

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 m

Alexis Collado - How to build successful communities

Apr 04 2022 59 mins

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, his challenges and frustrations of finding the right opportunities for his design jobs ea

Design workshops - why the journey is the destination

Mar 02 2022 45 mins

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

Season finale: How design explorers began and future plans

Dec 14 2021 30 mins

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 they overcome those.We really hope you enjoyed seasons 1 and have more exciting episo

The Figma Migration - One tool to rule them all!

Nov 02 2021 47 mins

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 designer

Empowering and building confidence through knowledge sharing

Sep 26 2021 46 mins

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 seasoned designers can help the less experienced ones with their weaknesses through this platfo