I am a native-born Japanese citizen who is strongly interested in the union of design and business.
Responsibilities:
- UX(User Experience) Design
- UI(User Interface) Design
UX skills acquired:
- Lean UX
- Agile Hypothesis Validation
- UX Facilitation
- Rapid Prototyping
- Interview
- Focus Group
- Usability Test
- Synthesize
- Persona
- A/B Testing
- Effective Brainstorming
- Research
- Story Telling
UI Skills acquired:
-Great understanding of design principles
- Wire-flame
- Mockup
- git/github collaboration
- Meticulous attention to detail
- Creative theme development
- Deep interest of business principals with design
- html/css/js coding
- Adobe Photoshop / Illustrator
- Color Theory
- Typography
- Branding
Clients:
-popIn Inc. (Tokyo based artificial intelligent system startup)
--- Designed UI of popin artificial intelligent recommendation system for Tech Crunch Japan
Intern:
-Start-up based in Silicon Valley
--- Advised Lean UX Process
--- UX session facilitation - hypothesize, brainstorming, discussion, synthesize, validate
--- Created persona to envison users / to validate hypothesis
--- Conducted User Interviews to gain rich user experience stories
Projects:
-btrax Website (Design)
http://btrax.com/jp
http://btrax.com/jp/what-we-do/strategy-consulting/
-SENKO Website (Coding)
http://senko-usa.com/
-PPC Campaign Marketing
-Landing Page Customization
Responsibilities:
- Websites (UI / UX) design
- Project Management
- Websites Coding (HTML, CSS, javascript, PHP)
- Branding (Localization / Japanese and US market)
- Marketing (Blog writing, PPC promotion, Market research)
Skills acquired:
-Great understanding of design principles
-Excellent knowledge of HTML/CSS
-Basic knowledge of PHP
-Meticulous attention to detail
-Creative theme development
-Able to manage multiple projects
-Self-starter & responsible
-Multicultural background
-Great time/stress management skill
-Fluent in Japanese
-Business level English
-Deep interest of business principals
Clients:
-TripAdvisor
-Glassdoor.com
-UCHIDA YOKO
-Gaiax
-Senko
-Gamma Law
-RECRUIT
-John Hopkins University
-iRep
-MetaMoji
-OZMA PR