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20+ years since my first flight. And still. Taking. Photos. Of. Clouds. And oceans and skyways, of course.
Oh, clouds.
Along the Shores of Kamogawa
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Shots from Kamogawa in Chiba Prefecture, 70km from Tokyo. Continue reading
The UX design of creating point cards
If you live in Japan and say yes to every offer to create a point card for the restaurant/shop/{whatever}, your wallet will blow up in no time. It also takes a bit of discipline to accumulate enough points to actually … Continue reading
Designing your onramp for starting new things
First, the story of how I started getting up in the morning, eating breakfast, and exercising. I started CrossFit in the second week of December, 2011. By the time the holiday rush started, I was already caught up in the … Continue reading
It’s the season for career advice blog posts
Ahhh April, the season of cherry blossoms. It’s the beginning of the school year, the beginning of the fiscal year… and for those that graduated school and found corporate jobs, it’s the beginning of a new life. Which means that … Continue reading
How Japanese CrossFitters tally their rounds
On the left is the score card that Naoko-san and I used. On the right is the one that Erik and Joey used. We used them to keep track of the WOD (workout of the day) – as many rounds … Continue reading
On designing the post-performance talk show Part II
The uniqueness of the initiative is not so much that the stars answer questions but that this all happens Right After The Show. Right after the curtain call, which in the case of Jekyll and Hyde is preceded by the violent death of the protagonist. Continue reading
On designing the post-performance talk show Part I
How can the experience be designed to go beyond a standard roundtable discussion with a rotating roster of actors, while achieving the business goal of trying to get butts back in the seats? Continue reading
User tests as a proxy for seeing through the eyes of a designer
Last week, I had an exciting experience with a user test. It was a paper prototype test of a new online service with Eiko, AQ’s graphic designer. She was the most experienced testee out of half a dozen sessions. Come … Continue reading
Tokyo Art Beat is going to MuseumNext 2012
It all started last January, when we found out that Jim Richardson was a guest speaker at the Digital Creative Conference, a two day conference at Academy Hills organized by the British Council. SumoJim was coming to Tokyo! The conference … Continue reading