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Alvin graduated with a MA, Contemporary China from NTU and with support from the Skills Future Study Award (SFSA) for Design, is currently doing a PhD in the division of Industrial Design (Design Thinking) at NUS. In his present job at Bain & Company, he advises senior leaders…

Minzhen switched from being a management consultant to doing business design. She’s currently pursuing a Postgraduate Diploma in Innovation & Design Thinking with support from the Skills Future Study Awards for Design.   Her natural curiosity about the way things and systems are run was something…

Though she started out in business administration and advertising, Seah Sze Yunn slowly discovered the world of visual communications. But she didn’t stop there – with the Skills Future Study Award for Design, she graduated with a Master of Arts in Design from Goldsmiths’ College, University of London.   Sze Yunn co-founded Perception3, an interdisciplinary…

Conducting annual employee engagement surveys has become the go-to tool for human resource departments to retrieve employee feedback and assess employee satisfaction. We find out if it is really effective. According to a 2018 Forbes quiz, more than 50% of companies…

DesignSingapore scholar Rachel Poonsiriwong is studying Interaction Design at the California College of the Arts. Since March 2019, she has been volunteering her design and research skills with civic and social organisation ShelterTech to alleviate homelessness. In this article, she shares how she…

DesignSingapore scholar Jonathan Ng recounts his experience as a participant in the Norman Foster Robotics Atelier 2019 in Madrid, Spain. He was one of 10 scholars selected through a global open call to participate in the workshop, where he met…

What keeps these four design leaders up at night? Ben Sheppard, Partner at McKinsey and Company, Jamie Myrold, VP of Adobe Design, Kat Holmes, Director of User Experience at Google, and Sam Yen, Head of Commercial Real Estate Digital at…

In “Burning Questions for Design Masters”, Crazy Rich Asians production designer Nelson Coates, innovator Daan Roosegaarde, design strategist Harry West, celebrated designer Patricia Urquiola and former IKEA Head of Design Marcus Engman give candid answers to a range of questions…