Hi! I’m Asuka Takano.

An Experience Designer based in Seattle, WA.

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Design Process

My experience has taught me that good design is not created in a moment of inspiration or a bubble. It is an iterative process requiring collaboration between multiple teams and end users. Great design requires deep knowledge of users, their environments, and their goals. Conducting research, talking to users, collaborating with different teams and testing prototypes all help to keep a project on track. I believe that successful design projects stem from good communication and keeping the end-user in the forefront.

Featured Projects

Smart insoles & connected app to maintain & improve human biomechanical health & wellness.

My primary contribution:
App Design
Website Design
UI Style Guidelines
Brand Style Guides

Web-based intervention to improve sleep quality of preschoolers with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis.

My primary contribution:
Website Design
Usability Testing
Logo Design

Visual mapping software that helps users visualize information by mapping content in structures.

My primary contribution:
Usability Testing
Competitive Analysis
Product Redesign
Husky Guiders

An augmented reality and indoor navigation application that helps new UW visitors efficiently navigate the UW campus.

My primary contribution:
User Research
Competitive Analysis
Rapid Prototyping

About Me

I am an Experience Designer with a Bachelor's degree of Human Centered Design and Engineering at the University of Washington. I'm fascinated by all-things psychology and design, and love to create products that can change someone's life for the better.
Currently, I'm working at JumpStartCSR, a healthcare tech startup based in Seattle, WA. I'm leading to build seamless user experiences of the software that prevents musculoskeletal injuries and improves biomechanical health & wellness for athletes, seniors, patients, and military service members.

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Outside of work, I like to do yoga and explore nature with my dogs! As a side project, I'm ideating an app to improve the efficiency of finding foster families and/or forever homes for animals to eradicate sad stories.

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