Design Explorers by Agoda Design

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Design Explorers by Agoda Design Podcast

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!

  1. 16/02/2023

    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 Rachel from the enterprise team to share what is like to work on the various product under the umbrella of Enterprise team.

    35 min

  2. 27/09/2022

    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.

    22 min

  3. 12/08/2022

    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 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.

    26 min

  4. 06/07/2022

    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 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

    23 min

  5. 12/05/2022

    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.

    38 min

  6. 04/04/2022

    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 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 early on in his career, and how all that lead him to the conclusion and realization that he should make his own fat...

    59 min

  7. 03/03/2022

    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 d...

    45 min

  8. 15/12/2021

    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, 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 episodes coming next year with season 2, so stay tuned for that!Meanwhile, if you want to share your feedback or sugge...

    30 min
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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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