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🎥 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!
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Our guest: Carla Diana
Personal WebsiteMy Robot Gets Me book___
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(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 [email protected].
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Behind Kiasu Design Life:
Adilah - Website | LinkedIn
Hsuan - Website | LinkedIn
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🎥 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.
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Our guest: Fiona Lim
Find her on InstagramRead her articles on MediumOnce again, thank you Alistair and Brief for sponsoring the space! ♥️♥️
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(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 [email protected].
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Behind Kiasu Design Life:
Adilah - Website | LinkedIn
Hsuan - Website | LinkedIn
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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!
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(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 [email protected].
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Behind Kiasu Design Life:
Adilah - Website | LinkedIn
Hsuan - Website | LinkedIn
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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 [email protected].
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Behind Kiasu Design Life:
Adilah - Website | LinkedIn
Hsuan - Website | LinkedIn
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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!
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(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 [email protected].
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Behind Kiasu Design Life:
Adilah - Website | LinkedIn
Hsuan - Website | LinkedIn
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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.
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Our guest: Sangeetha Selvaraja
Reach out to her on LinkedInDynamics of Singapore's Product Design Job MarketThank you Alistair and Brief for sponsoring the space! ♥️
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(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 [email protected].
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Behind Kiasu Design Life:
Adilah - Website | LinkedIn
Hsuan - Website | LinkedIn
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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!
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(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 [email protected].
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Behind Kiasu Design Life:
Adilah - Website | LinkedIn
Hsuan - Website | LinkedIn
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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? 🫠🫠🫠
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(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 [email protected].
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Behind Kiasu Design Life:
Adilah - Website | LinkedIn
Hsuan - Website | LinkedIn
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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!
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(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 [email protected].
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Behind Kiasu Design Life:
Adilah - Website | LinkedIn
Hsuan - Website | LinkedIn
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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!
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Survivor - 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 [email protected].
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Behind Kiasu Design Life:
Adilah - Website | LinkedIn
Hsuan - Website | LinkedIn
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Help us decide our club name by polling in Spotify and Instagram!
Our first book: My Robot Gets Me - Carla Diana
Official WebsiteCheck availability in NLB (Physical book/ audiobook/ eBook)🗓️ Chapters 1-2 discussion will release on 1 Feb 2024!
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(00:00) New concept reveal!
(01:03) Current club name
(02:25) How it works
(05:47) How this will benefit you
(06:39) Our first book!
(10:48) Wrapping up
Feel free reach us @KiasuDesignLife over at Instagram, where we hold post-release discussions with our supportive listeners ♥️ or email us at [email protected].
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Behind Kiasu Design Life:
Adilah - Website | LinkedIn
Hsuan - Website | LinkedIn
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Happy 2024! We did it, we've tide through another year! Let's give a gentle pat on our backs.
Since it's the new year, we decided to share a personal story about ____'s layoff experience (guess who). Yes we're putting the AI in "laid off" 🥁
Disclaimer: This episode is by no means disparaging or harming the reputation of any companies.
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(00:00) Hello!
(03:26) Who got laid off?
(06:32) Our motivation behind this episode
(08:32) How the layoff happened
(22:27) Feelings towards the layoff
(38:12) Truth behind a layoff
(43:01) Getting laid off in Singapore
Feel free reach us @KiasuDesignLife over at Instagram, where we hold post-release discussions with our supportive listeners ♥️ or email us at [email protected].
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Behind Kiasu Design Life:
Adilah - Website | LinkedIn
Hsuan - Website | LinkedIn
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"It's not about what you know, but also who you know." LinkedIn is the perfect place to make connections, exchange ideas and even fish for career opportunities! Today, we're recommending some inspiring people who actively share golden nuggets of wisdom on LinkedIn.
Who we mentioned:
Design X BusinessRuby PryorJohn Cutler "Hire more designers, ok?"Life as a designerBen GeorgeSigit A.Product design skillsDan WinerTommy GeocoJeff WhiteSelf improvementShiao-Yin KuikFeel free reach us @KiasuDesignLife over at Instagram, where we hold post-release discussions with our supportive listeners ♥️ or email us at [email protected].
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Behind Kiasu Design Life:
Adilah - Website | LinkedIn
Hsuan - Website | LinkedIn
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Scams. Scams everywhere. -insert buzz lightyear meme-
Do you feel like there are a lot more stories of scams nowadays? We do! Hence, we dived into the world of scams in light of the rising media coverage. Listen on to discover the uncanny similarities between the works of scammers and designers as we tried to dissect the customer journey of a scam.
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Behind the voices:
Adilah - Website | LinkedIn
Hsuan - Website | LinkedIn
Feel free reach us @KiasuDesignLife over at Instagram, where we hold post-release discussions with our supportive listeners ♥️ or email us at [email protected].
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Behind Kiasu Design Life:
Adilah - Website | LinkedIn
Hsuan - Website | LinkedIn
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We're recommending design podcasts in our podcast (how meta...). Here are some of our favourites for which we tune in regularly, and is evident in helping us elevate ourselves as designers.
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What we mentioned:
UIUX focusedDesign DetailsAwkward SilencesWorking in UX DesignDesign in GeneralPaper and PainDesign LifeCreative ConfidenceProduct & Entrepreneurship One Knight in ProductHow I Built ThisCrucible MomentsFeel free reach us @KiasuDesignLife over at Instagram, where we hold post-release discussions with our supportive listeners ♥️ or email us at [email protected].
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Behind the voices:
Adilah - Website | LinkedIn
Hsuan - Website | LinkedIn
Feel free reach us @KiasuDesignLife over at Instagram, where we hold post-release discussions with our supportive listeners ♥️ or email us at [email protected].
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Behind Kiasu Design Life:
Adilah - Website | LinkedIn
Hsuan - Website | LinkedIn
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We sat down with Alistair who gave us a glimpse of a story less told in Singapore - designing the living spaces of migrant workers. If they tirelessly help us build our homes, then someone ought to help them build theirs, even if it's temporal. That's where Alistair and Agency came in. It was such an eye-opening chat that we're super excited to share this with everyone else! Hope you enjoy this. 😌
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(00:00) Intro
(01:20) About Alistair & Brief (not underwear)
(05:49) How the project started and problem space
(10:33) Reductive terms: "Dorms" and "Migrant Workers"
(13:15) Running through the design process
(15:17) Ali's observation of dormitories and eye-openers
(24:49) Post-research: How the team synthesizes problems and observations
(29:46) 3 big guiding design principles to harmonize solutions
(36:54) More solutions that was prototyped
(46:48) Post-project checkpoints
(47:55) Dormitory managers, owners, and Google ratings?!
(53:28) Summary & what's next
(56:37) What's keeping Ali excited these days
(59:20) Ali's GTMS
(01:03:45) Adilah's GTMS
(01:08:20) Hsuan's GTMS
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Notes/references we made in this episode:
Alistair's GTMS: Oasis@Outram
Adilah's GTMS: Behavioural Sink Theory
Hsuan's GTMS: 12 Favourite Problems
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Behind the voices:
Alistair - Brief | LinkedIn
Adilah - Website | LinkedIn
Hsuan - Website | LinkedIn
Feel free reach us @KiasuDesignLife over at Instagram, where we hold post-release discussions with our supportive listeners ♥️ or email us at [email protected].
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Behind Kiasu Design Life:
Adilah - Website | LinkedIn
Hsuan - Website | LinkedIn
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This is a follow-up to Episode 16: How Singapore’s public transports design for dementia" where we caught up with Emily Ong who was heavily involved in the designing of Find Your Way initiative. Emily, who is living with onset dementia, responded to our critics (+ knocked some sense into us), shared with us behind the scenes and how she and the team arrived at their designs, what's next in the initiative, plus how it's like living with dementia in Singapore.
We truly learnt so much in a mere 1 hour chat with her and can't wait to share this with you! Highly recommend you to listen through Episode 16 first :)
psst. Emily recently launched a new book "Voices of Asia", a collection of stories from those living with dementia in Southeast Asia.
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(00:00) Intro
(01:45) About Emily
(05:28) How Emily got involved in the initiative
(11:04) Behind the scene and design process
(22:36) About mild dementia and Emily's struggles living in Singapore
(25:56) Where else in Singapore could be more dementia inclusive
(29:46) How the public transports system can be (even) better designed for dementia
(34:22) How Singapore fares in being dementia inclusive compared to other countries
(43:23) Emily's favourite sticker and reception since the launch
(46:10) What's next and Emily's struggle on sustaining the initiative
(51:34) Emily's message to our listeners
(56:53) Our post-interview thoughts
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Behind the voices:
Emily Ong - LinkedIn | Twitter
Adilah - Website | LinkedIn
Hsuan - Website | LinkedIn
Feel free reach us @KiasuDesignLife over at Instagram, where we hold post-release discussions with our supportive listeners ♥️ or email us at [email protected].
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Behind Kiasu Design Life:
Adilah - Website | LinkedIn
Hsuan - Website | LinkedIn
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Did you spot some illustrative stickers on the floors and walls of MRT stations or bus interchanges? These are initiatives to design for dementia and we want to talk more about it! In this episode, we unpacked what dementia’s REALLY like, what’s the current solution to help them in way-finding and our take on this solution.
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Notes/references we made in this episode:
Hsuan's GTMS: ground.news
Adilah's GTMS: Scary Interesting
Resources on dementia:
Towards a dementia-inclusive Singapore
Dementia-friendly neighbourhood
Dementia-friendly community
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Behind the voices:
Adilah - Website | LinkedIn
Hsuan - Website | LinkedIn
Feel free reach us @KiasuDesignLife over at Instagram, where we hold post-release discussions with our supportive listeners ♥️ or email us at [email protected].
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Behind Kiasu Design Life:
Adilah - Website | LinkedIn
Hsuan - Website | LinkedIn
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If you ever heard of Design Buddies or is active in Linkedin, you may have heard of Grace Ling based in US. We managed to grab her during her trip to Singapore (fun fact: Grace is part Singaporean too) and spend a fruitful hour together getting to know her better, how she grew a huge community, and unconventional + rising ways to land yourself a job as a UX designer. Grace is extremely bubbly and energetic, and we hope you'll feel this energy as you listen too.
⚠️⚠️ Warning: This episode may pump you up and turn you into a go-getter.
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Notes/references we made in this episode:
Design Buddies Discord
TikTok Resumes
Grace's GTMS: Tech Roast Show, Steven He YouTube
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Behind the voices:
Grace - Website | LinkedIn
Adilah - Website | LinkedIn
Hsuan - Website | LinkedIn
Feel free reach us @KiasuDesignLife over at Instagram, where we hold post-release discussions with our supportive listeners ♥️ or email us at [email protected].
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Behind Kiasu Design Life:
Adilah - Website | LinkedIn
Hsuan - Website | LinkedIn
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WAIT WHAT?! It's been a year since KSDL's first episode! We can't believe it ourselves..time really flies.
We decided to dedicate this episode for us to just sit down together with our teh/kopi, walk down memory lane and reminisce our first year of running this podcast. Join us in this light-hearted episode, where we unveil some interesting statistics of KSDL (also, hola amigas/amigos 👀), crowd's + our own favourite episode, and how we feel towards this year long and counting passion project.
From the bottom of our hearts, thank you so so much for your support in this humble little project of ours, from listening to our episode to reacting to our Instagram stories. Here's to more years to come! 🥳
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Behind the voices:
Adilah - Website | LinkedIn
Hsuan - Website | LinkedIn
Feel free reach us @KiasuDesignLife over at Instagram, where we hold post-release discussions with our supportive listeners ♥️ or email us at [email protected].
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Behind Kiasu Design Life:
Adilah - Website | LinkedIn
Hsuan - Website | LinkedIn
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