Skills

Skills

My background as a product owner and manager enables me to efficiently lead diverse projects, translating abstract ideas into concrete designs.

Product direction & management (UIUX strategy)

Conducting UX Research to Define Product Strategy: Defining personas, conducting competitive audits, and shaping user stories.
Product Ideation for Scope Definition: Visualizing user flows to create and refine product scope. In the team, I like using collaborative tools like Miro, Figma, or inVision freehands.
Wireframing to Bridge Ideas and Interfaces: Developing and defining interaction details based on a thorough understanding of user experience.

I managed Quartz app's social platform integration project

Product planning as a Sr. Director of Product Design at Uzabase's Edge project

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UIUX design and interactive prototypes

Collaborative and Efficient Design Communication Tools for Team: Experienced in various team sizes and maturity levels, enabled to employ diverse design methods to facilitate collaboration.
Developer-Ready Designs: Proficient in building development-ready designs including bitmap to vector formats.
Interaction Mockups: Creating detailed animations for interaction references using animation or prototyping software.

After researching similar and competitive gig worker services, series of wireframes were built for street parking sharing service iteration of the Flockx app.

At Quartz, I was in charge of producing and managing the design system for mobile apps.

At Dow Jones, I led the design of the Android adaptation, market visualization, and video player for WSJ's sister app.

For TNM, the interactive prototypes were made to communicate design detail options with different teams.

Mansion Global VR experience prototype at Dow Jones; project detail

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Web production and coded prototypes

No-code builders: Using no-code software such as webflow to build a website.
Interaction Mockups: For some larger projects, I have built coded prototypes using React, CSS3, or jQuery, which was helpful to test prototypes in more realistic settings.

Digital Information Wall and its early prototype in OF (C++); project detail

UI Designs for PLEY: Developed UI designs for PLEY, a Customer Feedback Management System. These designs were then translated into a basic front-end coded interactive prototype to facilitate further UX improvements.

Design library was created also in React. The prototype was made using these components.

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Motion graphics and presentations

Graphical and Clear Presentations: With more graphical elements and less text, elevating presentation decks more engaging and informative.
Infographics and Concept Animations for Presentations: Enhancing communication through animated elements for clearer understanding.
Animations to enhance app UX: Integrating animations directly into web codes using tools like Lottie for enhanced user experience.

Metaball project for the Elevator video at SkyTree Tower at Tokyo

UI animation is often made with animation softwares to communicate detail nuounces

Processing was one of first coding software I explored for data visualization. The screenshot shows the chart that shows flight data between major cities in the world.

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Get in touch

I'm excited to learn about your project.
Let's collaborate to turn conceptual ideas into concrete results.

takuma.kakehi@gmail.com

Takuma's Portfolio

Experienced product and interaction designer, with diverse experience in web, mobile, VR, AR, and immersive experiences.