Kiasu Design Life

🎥 The video version is available on YouTube! 🎥Now that we've wrapped up "My Robot Gets Me" in our book club, let's hear it straight from the author herself! Other than her journey into writing the book, we dived into her life as a educator of 4D Design at Cranbrook and how it's so closely parallel to our work as UX Designers!___Our guest: Carla DianaPersonal WebsiteMy Robot Gets Me book___Timestamp:(00:00) Meet Carla and how she got into "Robotics"(06:05) How did Carla came out with the framework(09:42) Carla and her experiences with digital products(14:26) Are robotic products better now?(18:50) How Covid affected her experience writing the book(23:22) Her provocative Ted Talk and Twitter reactions(26:31) Peek into her 4D Design program at Cranbrook(32:47) The magic of design-dev collaboration in schools(38:28) Carla's son interactions with social products(42:28) Carla's message to those who haven't read her book!(43:20)  What's next for Carla! Feel free reach us @KiasuDesignLife over at Instagram, where we hold post-release discussions with our supportive listeners ♥️ or email us at kiasudesignlife@gmail.com.___Behind Kiasu Design Life:Adilah - Website | LinkedInHsuan - Website | LinkedIn

🎥 The video version is available on YouTube! 🎥Here's another chat with a local designer and content creator - Fiona Lim! With 18.5k followers and 6 years of experience under her belt, she's here to share what it takes to build and grow your personal branding.___Our guest: Fiona LimFind her on InstagramRead her articles on MediumOnce again, thank you Alistair and Brief for sponsoring the space! ♥️♥️___Timestamp:(00:00) Meet Fiona and how she got into UX design(06:05) Our first time doing video podcasting!(08:05) Fiona's career(10:17) Fiona x Adilah: Meeting fellow UX content creator (14:08) Becoming a UX content creator (19:55) How being a content creator impacts her day job?(28:28) Interactions with other UX content creators(32:47) Journey as a content creator (+ downsides!)(40:05) Additional income streams!(42:10) Fiona's plan to grow her audience(55:05) Advice for aspiring UX content creators(59:27) Closing thoughts Feel free reach us @KiasuDesignLife over at Instagram, where we hold post-release discussions with our supportive listeners ♥️ or email us at kiasudesignlife@gmail.com.___Behind Kiasu Design Life:Adilah - Website | LinkedInHsuan - Website | LinkedIn

YEEEHAWWWW! We've reached the final stretch of this book! We wrap this journey up by talking about ecosystems - how products work together to enhance your life, the difference between AI and AGI, and our responsibility as designers for social products"📣 Also, look forward to our exclusive interview with Carla Diana, the author herself! Timestamp:(00:00) Time flies!(01:05)  Ch7: Ecosystems!(04:23) Benefit of a robot in an ecosystem(07:13) How ecosystem relate to UX?(12:26) Ch8: AI & Social Savviness(17:12) What is AGI and is it possible?(18:30) Wise approach to designing socially intelligent product(20:34) Ch9: Takeaways and now what?(23:32) Is there a SG version of Moxi?!(24:49) Hsuan's horror story of Neato and Dusty(28:23) Potential & danger for designers(30:30) WE DID IT & our genuine thoughts!! Feel free reach us @KiasuDesignLife over at Instagram, where we hold post-release discussions with our supportive listeners ♥️ or email us at kiasudesignlife@gmail.com.___Behind Kiasu Design Life:Adilah - Website | LinkedInHsuan - Website | LinkedIn

Chilli padi is back! We scoured the internet to find 6 UX portfolios worth mentioning and explained why we like it! Portfolios we mentioned:IC PortfoliosAng Yi Xin 🇸🇬 [Link]Yuan Jie 🇸🇬 [Link]Billy Tseng [Link]Strategy/ManagerJoel Califa [Link]Tarryn Lambert [Link]Jonny Czar [Link] Feel free reach us @KiasuDesignLife over at Instagram, where we hold post-release discussions with our supportive listeners ♥️ or email us at kiasudesignlife@gmail.com.___Behind Kiasu Design Life:Adilah - Website | LinkedInHsuan - Website | LinkedIn

Have you ever find yourself saying "Why is this person so weird?", or "Gosh this product is dumb". This 2 chapters help us to peel the layers and explain in a structured manner. And in turn, teach us how to engineer a socially smart product! 🗓️ Final chapters 7-9 discussion will release on  3 Apr 2024📣 Also, look forward to our exclusive interview with Carla Diana, the author herself! Timestamp:(00:00) Welcome!(02:29) Ch5: Interactions(06:50) Interactions in UX(07:35) Sensing & inferring = interaction(10:40) Sensors & actuators making interactions possible(11:36) psst~ A mini announcement ;)(12:35) How products sense, hear & see us(21:19) Ch6: How robots are contextually aware(24:34) Robots in SG restaurants(26:20) When, where, for whom is key to context(34:28) Enactment & storyboarding to gain context Feel free reach us @KiasuDesignLife over at Instagram, where we hold post-release discussions with our supportive listeners ♥️ or email us at kiasudesignlife@gmail.com.___Behind Kiasu Design Life:Adilah - Website | LinkedInHsuan - Website | LinkedIn

A design recruiter has joined the chat! Join us with Sangeetha as she shared insights of design job market, hiring and staying competitive in Singapore.___Our guest: Sangeetha SelvarajaReach out to her on LinkedInDynamics of Singapore's Product Design Job MarketThank you Alistair and Brief for sponsoring the space! ♥️___Timestamp:(00:00) Intro(09:02) Sangeetha's day as a recruiter(14:50) Stereotypes of a recruiter(17:41) Design job market in SG(26:29) How recruiters classify designers(30:24) Career paths for UX in SG(36:40) Hiring process for UX in SG(42:20) How effective is the current process?(47:32) Salary & hiring(51:16) Red/green flags for candidates & interviewers(54:29) Recruitment for large & small companies(56:34) View on pregnant candidates(58:08) How career history affects hiring(01:01:41) Staying competitive as designers and AI(01:04:19) Sangeetha's 3 takeaways Feel free reach us @KiasuDesignLife over at Instagram, where we hold post-release discussions with our supportive listeners ♥️ or email us at kiasudesignlife@gmail.com.___Behind Kiasu Design Life:Adilah - Website | LinkedInHsuan - Website | LinkedIn

We're covering how products have "Presence" and "Expression". We had such fun recording this episode as we draw examples from our daily lives to illustrate the design concepts.📚 My Robot Gets Me:Official WebsiteGet it for free from NLB (Physical/ audiobook/ eBook)🗓️ Chapters 5-6 discussion will release on  11 Mar 2024!Timestamp:(00:00) Welcome & name reveal!(02:24) Ch3: Product presence & embodiment(05:49) Product semantics(12:17) Product's social roles(15:11) Ch4: Product expression(18:37) Lighting as expression(20:24) Moving on to movement (keke)(23:18) Sound as expression(29:48) Ch3-4 thoughts Feel free reach us @KiasuDesignLife over at Instagram, where we hold post-release discussions with our supportive listeners ♥️ or email us at kiasudesignlife@gmail.com.___Behind Kiasu Design Life:Adilah - Website | LinkedInHsuan - Website | LinkedIn

Riding on (🤓) the SimplyGo drama, we put on our commuter & designer hat and review the SimplyGo app!Is this the standard of our local apps? 🫠🫠🫠Timestamp:(00:00) Hello!(01:29) SimplyGo drama recap(05:01) Our take on this topic(10:42) SimplyGo's main workflows(16:02) Sign up & onboarding review(23:47) Dashboard review(27:37) Adding card review(30:40) Travel txn review (Hsuan's pissed)(35:32) Top-up review (pun galore!)(36:45) Our conclusion Feel free reach us @KiasuDesignLife over at Instagram, where we hold post-release discussions with our supportive listeners ♥️ or email us at kiasudesignlife@gmail.com.___Behind Kiasu Design Life:Adilah - Website | LinkedInHsuan - Website | LinkedIn

In this light-hearted episode, we're discussing chapters 1 & 2 of My Robot Gets Me! We introduced 'social interactions', how that relates to product design, and how automatic doors gotta do with all these?! We also got a lil nerdy about 'affordances' & 'interactions' with the help of a framework 🤓📚 My Robot Gets Me:Official WebsiteGet it for free from NLB (Physical/ audiobook/ eBook)🗓️ Chapters 3-4 discussion will release on  21 Feb 2024!Timestamp:(00:00) Welcome!(01:52) Ch1: Social interactions w/ products(05:25) Good and bad social exp.(11:53) Social design framework(13:14) Ch2: Affordances & Interactions(15:06) Intuitive & intimacy(18:01) Social affordances(21:13) Interactants(23:19) Our thoughts Feel free reach us @KiasuDesignLife over at Instagram, where we hold post-release discussions with our supportive listeners ♥️ or email us at kiasudesignlife@gmail.com.___Behind Kiasu Design Life:Adilah - Website | LinkedInHsuan - Website | LinkedIn

This is a follow-up to our previous episode "22: Going through a layoff". We've already shared a personal story of how one of us got laid off, but today we're covering what you can do knowing you're leaving a company, some lessons learnt after a layoff andddd, how to layoff-proof yourself!MUSICSurvivor - Destiny's ChildTimestamp:(00:00) Hello!(00:40) Your reactions from ep.22(03:04) 4 reasons behind a layoff(07:07) What to do if you are leaving(15:27) Lessons from a layoff(31:13) How to lay-off proof yourself Feel free reach us @KiasuDesignLife over at Instagram, where we hold post-release discussions with our supportive listeners ♥️ or email us at kiasudesignlife@gmail.com.___Behind Kiasu Design Life:Adilah - Website | LinkedInHsuan - Website | LinkedIn