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Episode 52: Compassionate Leadership in High Tempo Teams with Sigit Adinugroho
28 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Sigit is a Lead Product Designer with 17+ years of experience at companies like TripAdvisor, Shopify, Expedia/Vrbo, and DBS Bank. Based in Singapore, ...
Episode 51: Managing Pivots in Product & Career with Ana Lei
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ana Lei is driven by the dynamic intersection of finance and technology. This fascination fuelled her career pivot from private banking into tech. She...
Episode 50: Does Design Matter? with Jay Demetillo
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With 10+ years of experience working in New York City, San Francisco, China, Singapore, and now Australia, Jay Demetillo has built an impressive resum...
Episode 49: Systems and Product Thinking in Research & Design with Tara Hirebet
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tara Hirebet is a seasoned product development and research leader with 18+ years experience working with big tech (Google), startups (Spotify) and su...
Episode 48: Vibe Code & Launch your first Mobile App with Sherizan Sheikh
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sherizan Sheikh is a designer and AI builder. He leads design at botim (MENA’s fastest-growing app), builds solo projects like Nasma.ai, a spiritual...
Episode 47: Iterate to Fit: Using Continuous Discovery to achieve PMF with Jocelyn Malan
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jocelyn is a product and design leader with 14 years of experience in building strong teams and creating impact for consumers and businesses. She help...
Episode 46: Hypergrow your Tech Career with Startups with Assyaraf Johari
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Assyaraf is currently a product design manager at Circles - a Telco SaaS company. With 10 years of experience in digital design, he is passionate abou...
Episode 45: Designing and Launching Global Products with Jill Quek
30 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jill Quek is a design lead at Automattic. She currently manages a team of product designers, who work remotely from all over the world. Together, they...
Episode 44: From Meta To Masters: Why Good Designers Stay Curious and Courageous with Sabina Fernandez
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sabina Fernandez is a UX Content Design Lead whose designs have unlocked millions-worth of spending with diverse-owned suppliers. How? Empathy. She pu...
Episode 43: Blockchain and Web3 Usability Design with Winnie Chong
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Winnie Chong has spent 17 years bridging creativity and commerce in design, advertising, and interactive media across the APAC region. She’s worked ...
Episode 42: Behind the Numbers: Future proofing your Career, Pay and Progression with Jonathan Yap
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Yap is a design leader and community advocate exploring the evolving identity of design in Southeast Asia. Through Design Pay Asia, he dives ...
Episode 41: The Art of Design Transition Scaling Innovations with Legacy with Thum Yin Teng
31 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With over a decade in design, Yin has done everything from print and branding to working with startups, leading event creatives, and managing an indie...
Episode 40: Beyond Digital, Incorporating Service and Product Management in WealthTech with Isaac Lee
27 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kicking off his career through hackathons, Isaac Lee quickly transitioned from payments into wealthtech. With a passion for solving problems at scale,...
Episode 39: Innovation Design and Beyond with Sherylene
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Shery is a design strategist with a flair for unconventional thinking and excels at tackling complex problems in creative ways. After nearly a decade ...
Episode 38: Service Design and Beyond with Adela Ordonez
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Adela is Director of Product Design and User Insights teams at Zalora, working across various SEA markets. She has been at the forefront of designing ...
Episode 37: Design Leadership — Paths for Progress with Norman Teh
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Norman is a senior design manager based in Singapore. At Grab, he drives strategy, design, culture, and growth across the organization with a focus on...
Episode 36: Communicating Impact as a Design Leader with Izwan Ismail
31 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Izwan Ismail is a digital and design leader with over a decade of experience that encompasses startups, scaleups, and corporations. He has advised a g...
Episode 35: The Value of Innovation and Venture Design with Eyad Hasbullah
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Eyad's a venture bricklayer with his recent experience primarily being in the digital sector for energy, renewables, commerce, media and fintech, from...
Episode 34: Designing and Growing with Malaysia’s Digital Ecosystem with Johnny Woo
25 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Johnny, a seasoned designer with over two decades of experience spanning various industries, including comics, automobiles, mobile apps, and seco...
Episode 33: Deep Frontiers in UX Design Ikram Faidzal
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With over 13 years of experience spanning digital agencies, e-commerce (11street - a joint venture between SK Planet and Celcom Axiata), and telecommu...
Episode 32: Business Impact of Strategic Design with Ruby Pryor
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ruby has spent her career making organisations more customer-centric. In Singapore, her experience includes working as a Lead UX Researcher at Grab an...
Episode 31: Navigating your Design Career in Agencies & Startups with Daryl Tan
05 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Daryl is a Digital Product Designer with over a decade of experience working in various agencies, start-ups, and SMEs. He is creatively curious, and e...
Episode 30: The Impact of AI in UX Design with Chenmu Wu
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chenmu Wu graduated from university with a degree in Architecture and proceeded to work at Shopee for four years as a UIUX designer. In 2019, he playe...
Episode 29: Predicting the Future of UX with Gideon Simons
06 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Part technologist and part psychologist, Gideon specialises in designing experiences with emerging technologies such as AI, IOT and Automation, and br...
Episode 28: Women Leadership in Tech with Upasna Bhandari
02 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Upasna started as a UX Researcher (Team of 1) in the fintech industry solving user problems related to finance needs specifically in the APAC region (...
Episode 27: East meets West Product Design with Kuei Tien Huang
10 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kuei Tien Huang is a Product Design Manager with Rakuten Viki who manages and develops the product experience design team. Whether it’s solving a co...
Episode 26: Bridging Tech and Design with Yi Xin Ang
06 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Yi Xin is a senior product designer specializing in UX and UI with over 13 years of experience of solving problems and crafting great user experience ...
Episode 25: Scaling a Product Team in a High Growth Startup with Jared Chan
02 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jared is an experienced product leader with over 15 years of experience in product management and digital innovation across various industries. He is...
Episode 24: Product Thinking & Product Design with Justin Leong
31 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Product Designer at SPH based in Singapore focusing on implementing user-centred, data-driven and business-oriented design. He has been involved in va...
Episode 23: Working in UX Research in the USA with Monica Chan, EdD
16 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
UX Researcher at Amazon, Monica Chan, is a Singaporean living and working in the United States. She recently graduated from Columbia University (Te...
Episode 22: UX Research & Strategy with Homaxi Irani
21 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With over 20 years in experience design, the last 15 years have seen Homaxi Irani in roles providing leadership to build and elevate UX research and d...
Episode 21: Building and growing UX circles with Khai Seng Hong
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Khai Seng has been in the UX design field since 2004, focusing on design research and interaction design. He was formerly the Head of Singapore for Fo...
Episode 20: Learning and Networking as a UX-er with Wenshu Kwek
29 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Wenshu is a senior product designer at Shopify with a background in industrial design. He helps reduce risk in product development and solves high-i...
Episode 19: Running a Remote UX Design Consultancy with Chin Chin (Tan) Burkolter
31 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chin Chin started out as a visual communication designer, with her role expanding towards strategic experience design. She is a person who is always l...
Episode 18: Inclusivity in UX Design with Ning Goh, Senior UX Designer
11 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As a UX Designer, Ning believes strongly that products can be and should be designed ethnically and with inclusivity in mind. Previously, Ning has wor...
Episode 17: The Value of UX Internships & Degrees with Jingxiu Cheng, User Experience Architect at Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA)
30 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jingxiu is a UX Designer who strives to make a positive impact on society through human-centred design. He is currently working as a User Experience A...
Episode 16: From Code to Canvas with Ajmal Afif Jamal, Lead Product Designer, Grab, Singapore
02 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ajmal Afif Jamal is a Malaysian design executive living in Singapore. He is currently working as a Lead Product Designer at Grab. He shares a vast wor...
Episode 15: Service Design & Research Ops for Public Design with Cheryl Wong , UX/Service Designer & ResearchOps at GovTech Singapore
28 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Cheryl Wong is currently a UX/Service Designer & ResearchOps at GovTech, Government Digital Services (GDS) Singapore. She has over 11 years of div...
Episode 14: UX Research Craft & Methodologies with Naroth Murali, UX Researcher at DBS
03 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Naroth Murali is a mixed-method UX researcher with over 6 years of experience in the design research domain. Having majored in industrial design, he i...
Episode 13: Mindfulness, Agile and Design with Thye Chuan Tan, Lead UX Designer at additiv
28 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Thye Chuan embraces and shares an ardent curiosity in infusing the concepts of Self-Awareness and Agility. As a UX designer, he has worked with digita...
Episode 12: Design for Inclusivity with Kitt Santos, Senior Product Designer at Xero
28 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Senior Product Designer at Xero, Kitt Santos, shares vast experience as an experience designer, freelance illustrator and design mentor. He is curren...
Episode 11: Leading Design from New York to Singapore with Randy Hunt, Head of Design at Grab
28 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Head of Design at Grab, Randy Hunt, is an American design-centred executive living in Singapore where he spearheads a team of more than 130 product de...
Episode 10: Designing for SAAS vs Consumer Products with Mike Chen, Head of Product Design at ShopBack
26 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From the co-founder of an interaction design company to product design leader, Mike is an individual highly experienced in product and experience desi...
Episode 9: Becoming a UX Designer in South-East Asia with Atiqah Khalim, Senior UX Designer at Shopee
25 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Starting from being a visual designer to eventually transitioning to full-fledged UX design roles in Razer and Shopee, Atiqah is an individual well-ve...
Episode 8: Effective Design Ops & Management with Sunit Sharma, Senior Manager Product Design at SPH
21 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sunit is a local product designer with an academic background in Design, Business, and Innovation. He specialises in visual, interaction, design strat...
Episode 7: Rise of Content Design with Liva Paudere, VP Content Design at DBS
25 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 Desi...
Episode 6: Design Culture Shocks with Jay Demetillo, UX/UI Design Lead at Grab
29 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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,...
Episode 5: Design Maturity in APAC with Varun Thota, Product Design Lead at SEEK
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 y...
Episode 4: Building a UX Team with Preston Matsuwaki, Product Owner at PebbleRoad
30 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Preston has a portfolio of over 9 industries, solving organisational problems and nurturing successful design teams. He started out as a freelancer an...
Episode 3: Design in Motion with Nattu Adnan, Co-founder & CTO at LottieFiles
24 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 2: Kicking Start Your UX Journey In 2021 with Ben George, Design Head, ReferralCandy
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 wh...
Episode 1: UX Research for Global Markets with Jia En Koh, UX Researcher at Tripadvisor
10 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 con...