Working in UX Design

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Episodes

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Every month, tune in to our ‘Working In UX Design’ podcast series - where we interview a UX professional in the industry on their experience of working in UX Design. Our past interviewees include UX leads from Grab, AirAsia, Shopify, TripAdvisor and more!

Episodes

Episode 10: Designing for SAAS vs Consumer Products with Mike Chen, Head of Product Design at ShopBack

From the co-founder of an interaction design company to product design leader, Mike is an individual highly experienced in product and experience design, with over 10 years in the field. He was previously at Zendesk as a product designer working with product managers and engineers to create beautiful and simple business software that scales. He is currently the head of product design at ShopBack. Mike’s philosophy is to make software simple with a data-driven design process and he is heavily inf...

Nov 26, 2021•49 min•Ep 10•Transcript available on Metacast

Episode 9: Becoming a UX Designer in South-East Asia with Atiqah Khalim, Senior UX Designer at Shopee

Starting from being a visual designer to eventually transitioning to full-fledged UX design roles in Razer and Shopee, Atiqah is an individual well-versed in the discipline of design. She is currently working at one of Asia’s largest e-commerce platforms, Shopee, as a senior UX designer in charge of crafting key payment pages and flows to support transactions across the Shopee app, ShopeePay, and other digital products. As a designer, Atiqah is also involved in design across the brand’s differen...

Oct 25, 2021•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Episode 8: Effective Design Ops & Management with Sunit Sharma, Senior Manager Product Design at SPH

Sunit is a local product designer with an academic background in Design, Business, and Innovation. He specialises in visual, interaction, design strategy and leading teams. Sunit has been in a leadership role for the last five years and has been helping other designers to grow as better individuals and designers. At SPH, he works with senior leadership across the origination to drive digital transformation, advocates for a user-centred design culture in various teams and delivers UX Strategy for...

Sep 21, 2021•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Episode 7: Rise of Content Design with Liva Paudere, VP Content Design at DBS

From taking on Producer roles in the Film and TV Production industry, Liva has jumped to Marketing, Content Creating and is now the VP of Content Design at DBS. As part of DBS’ UX Design Team of 60 people with 15 nationalities and counting, she designs necessary designs for millions. She is also a UX Writer there and writes articles which are featured on uxplanet.org As someone obsessed with structure, Liva’s inspiration is the iconic Sherlock Holmes, whom she sometimes relates to on her good da...

Aug 25, 2021•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Episode 6: Design Culture Shocks with Jay Demetillo, UX/UI Design Lead at Grab

With more than 10 years of experience in the industry, Jay has worked in multiple impressive design roles in well-known companies like Twitter, Yahoo, Pinterest and now, Grab. He is known to be a jack of all trades ranging from print, web, editorial design, branding, iconography, presentations, motion graphics, shooting & editing, directing, photography, UX, UI, Xcode, and prototyping. Tune in to hear his thoughts on: - East vs West design process - What we see as users vs what we don't see ...

Jul 29, 2021•1 hr•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast

Episode 5: Design Maturity in APAC with Varun Thota, Product Design Lead at SEEK

Despite a business academic background, he has worked in product development and design for the last 8+ years as a Product Designer. In the past few years, he has gone from being an IC to Lead, supporting teams across multiple countries. Most of his days are spent understanding customer/business needs, crafting experiences, providing context for teams to solve the right problems and helping designers grow their design maturity. When he's not designing, he's out and about exploring and capturing ...

Jun 22, 2021•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Episode 4: Building a UX Team with Preston Matsuwaki, Product Owner at PebbleRoad

Preston has a portfolio of over 9 industries, solving organisational problems and nurturing successful design teams. He started out as a freelancer and evolved into multiple design roles, including being a UX Designer at InnoCellence where he worked with international clients from the medical industry, part-time UX Design Instructor at General Assembly, and a UX Lead at JLT Asia where he built, managed, explored and maintained multiple bespoke digital products for their clients. Preston has take...

May 30, 2021•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Episode 3: Design in Motion with Nattu Adnan, Co-founder & CTO at LottieFiles

Having been a Lead Product Designer at ServisHero, Senior Product Designer at MindValley and now the Co-Founder and CTO of LottieFiles, Nattu has had plenty of years of experience in the field. He currently works in LottieFiles which focuses on building the future of animation and interactive design. It is a company funded by Adobe Fund for Design & 500 Startups and backed by M12, Microsoft VC as their investor. With over 20 years of experience in building Web applications, his approach invo...

Apr 24, 2021•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast

Episode 2: Kicking Start Your UX Journey In 2021 with Ben George, Design Head, ReferralCandy

This episode is meant for aspiring UX Designers who are doubting their decision to make a career switch into UX and would like to hear from someone who has been in the same situation as them.

Mar 24, 2021•51 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast

Episode 1: UX Research for Global Markets with Jia En Koh, UX Researcher at Tripadvisor

This episode is meant for UX Researchers who are struggling to adjust to the new normal in their work caused by COVID-19, as Jia En shares how she continues to carry out UX Research in Global Markets remotely.

Feb 10, 2021•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast