More about me.
Alexandra (Alex) Arguelles is a Filipino designer based in sunny Singapore. With a BA(Hons) in Industrial Design from the National University of Singapore, she has dabbled in industrial design, 3D design, interaction design, and design research. Some past experiences include works with the Dormitory Association of Singapore Ltd (DASL), U-Tokyo DLX Design Lab, and SIA-NUS Digital Aviation Corporate Laboratory.
In her free time she likes to craft, play cozy (and some non-cozy) video games, and play volleyball.
I am a multidisciplinary designer who relishes learning new skills...
... and trying new experiences
Past experiences
Research Engineer @ SIA-NUS Digital Aviation Corporate Laboratory
As of Jan25, acted as coordinator between NUS work package (consisting of 3 teams) and Singapore Airlines, and project lead for the internal design team, focusing on business class passenger experience.
Designed and facilitated co-design workshops with Singapore Airlines Business Units.
Developed and proposed design concepts for better sleep and flight experience based on insights from co-design workshops, laboratory studies (conducted in a real environment cabin simulator) and field study (business class flights)
In-house graphic design, 3D modelling, and prototyping
Conducted lectures for undergraduate design students at NUS for 2 semesters
Nov 2023–present
Freelance Graphic Designer for Dr. Kitchen
Visual identity design, creating graphic assets for social media and packaging
Jul 2020–May 2024
Design Researcher/Subcontractor @ DLX Lab
Developed ‘Talking with Neurons’ project for Ikeuchi Lab, to create an interactive design experience to publicise the Lab’s research on in-vitro neural tissues
Concept development, prototyping, graphical asset creation, and animations using Adobe Suite and Touchdesigner
This work has been presented and exhibited at UTokyo, SIGGRAPH 2023 LA, and 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT Tokyo
May 2022–Aug 2023
Research Assistant Intern @ SIA-NUS Digital Aviation Corporate Laboratory
Designed, planned, and facilitated a 2-day Design Thinking Workshop with SIA staff, for stakeholder alignment and topic exploration for the following 5-year project on sleep and long-haul flights
May 2021–Aug 2021