Marcel Akiyama
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Marcel Akiyama

Digital Product Design in Brazil, he/him

Looking for new challenges.

4 years ago

About

I’m a seasoned product designer, digital nomad and cognitive science enthusiast. Since 2013 I’ve helped startups, companies, and nonprofits across a myriad of verticals leverage design to craft products, services, and systems that people love.

Work Experience

2019 — 2021
Digital Product Designer at Freelance
Remote, Japan, Taiwan, Seoul, Hong Kong, Thailand, Bali, Cambodia
2018 — 2018
Remote

• Rapidly iterated in designing process flows, wireframes and other low-fidelity artifacts.
• Worked with product managers to define and research requirements, and translate them into design concepts.

2015 — 2016
San Mateo, CA & Remote

• Defined the UX vision and strategy across the company.
• Worked with marketing, product management, R&D, and customer support to define and execute on the end-to-end customer experience.
• Defined critical KPIs, metrics, and business outcomes that deliver an ROI to the organization.
• Infused the culture with a design thinking mindset—a creative approach to solving business, product, and user problems.
• Designed Labell.io (Acquired by Kyocera)
• Designed Capitalico/AlpacaAlgo from the ground up.

2014 — 2015
Kobe, Japan & Remote

• Part of the initial team of Alpaca.
• Worked on ML/DL/CV solutions for Nintendo (Automated Content Moderation), Yahoo Japan (Visual Searching using Computer Vision), NEC (Face and Object Recognition), Yanai Kogyo (Power Plant - Drone Solar Panel Malfunction Detection and Automated Blueprint Generator).
• Contributed in ideating/testing new products around AI technology and defining the mission and vision for the company.

2013 — 2014
Bangalore, India

• Defined the experience and interface of products and the brand and marketing strategy around products.
• Created user flows, wireframes, prototypes, high fidelity mockups, and detailed UI and visual design specifications for interfaces.
• Contributed in hiring key people to make the project progress and set the foundations for future products.

2009 — 2013
Graphic & Web Designer at Freelance
Brazil & Japan

Provided graphic and web design services for SME.

2007 — 2008
Tokyo, Japan

• Introduced and applied expert art direction to the visual elements of creative projects.
• Ensured a high standard of visual execution across all media and campaigns.
• Inspired and motivated the agency’s clients to be creatively progressive, through the application of fresh and inventive visual work.
• Reviewed the work of designers and provided direction and feedback.
• Took ownership of the visual elements of creative work for new business pitches.
• Uncovered new ways to incorporate emerging and new media formats into campaigns.

2006 — 2007
Tokyo, Japan

• Created visual concepts, by hand or using computer software, to communicate ideas that inspire, inform, or captivate consumers.
• Worked on projects for leading brands such as Bridgestone, Toshiba, Canon, Columbia, Hisamitsu, Sharp, Western Union, Honda, Greenpeace, Lexus.

Education

2017 — Now
Online

Continuous Learning - Learning a range of user experience and interaction design related skills.