Hi, we're Desai and Thuan, best friends from architecture school and early career designers on a journey to discover how to build creatively fulfilling and financially sustainable careers. We are super excited to share with you notes from our podcast, and hope you’ll subscribe for bi-monthly updates! thepragmaticdesigners.substack.com
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Signup to Generate a PitchHi, we're Desai and Thuan, best friends from architecture school and early career designers on a journey to discover how to build creatively fulfilling and financially sustainable careers. We are super excited to share with you notes from our podcast, and hope you’ll subscribe for bi-monthly updates!
Recent episodes include "From Academia to Modular Futures | Victor Tzen" (24 September 2025, 61 minutes), "Minimizing Regret and Reframing Risks | Colleen Chang" (26 August 2025, 48 minutes), and "Getting Real: Behind the Mic with Desai and Thuan" (9 August 2025, 37 minutes).
The Pragmatic Designers publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 52 minutes across 10 episodes.
Booking probability for The Pragmatic Designers is 17%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Pragmatic Designers requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Pragmatic Designers's contact route on record: public web form.
The strongest fits for The Pragmatic Designers are Architecture & Engineering and Business & Management Consulting. The Pragmatic Designers has an arts audience.
The Pragmatic Designers is an arts podcast with 10 episodes published.
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<p>Hi, we're Desai and Thuan, best friends from architecture school and early career designers on a journey to discover how to build creatively fulfilling and financially sustainable careers. We are super excited to...
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<p>This week, we spoke with Melanie Imfeld, a map design lead at Mapbox. Trained in architecture and urban design at ETH Zurich and UCL, Mel's journey has taken her through master-planning, digital product strategy, map...
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<p>In this episode, we talk with Arjun Mahesh, Head of Design at Hebbia—an AI research company helping analysts go from questions to answers in seconds. From Frank Gehry’s office to Kickstarter, Stripe, Verse, and now...
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<p>In our first podcast episode, we sat down with Alexander "Alex" Kyaw, an interdisciplinary researcher bridging architecture and computer science at MIT.</p><p>When Alex arrived at Cornell for his undergraduate, he...
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