About
I'm a San Francisco-based Japanese Designer, with over 14 years of design experience, including 8 years in building products and brand identities for early-stage startups.
Work Experience
Side Projects
The newsletter version of the book "How Might We Learn English as a Designer?" （デザイナーの英語帳）
I localized Stops, a camera app into Japanese.
I published a book called "How Might We Learn English as a Designer? (デザイナーの英語帳)" in 2020, which is for Japanese designers who learn English but it is read by Japanese learners as well.
Projects
Collaborative tool that helps teams seamlessly submit and resolve visual feedback, bugs, and ideas on any web software.
The challenge was to turn the best of the existing two products—Toybox and BugReplay—into a new product.
I designed a browser extension and visual for the entire product, including a web application. I also contributed to building the brand identity.
Sora Union is your globally distributed creative partner and works for rapidly growing and category-defining customers in many industries.
I contributed to their brand identity design. I developed a 24-hour color system for the brand palette and built initial design guidelines.