Takahiro Kawaguchi

Capabilities

What I do, specifically.

Leadership & Strategy

  • Design org creation and scaling
  • Team management and career development
  • Design career frameworks and leveling
  • Performance calibration
  • UX strategy and planning
  • Program and project management
  • Budget and resource management
  • KPI and metrics-driven design operations
  • Change management
  • Recruiting and hiring
  • Vendor management

Industry Depth

  • Enterprise SaaS
  • B2B product design
  • Consumer mobile (iOS & Android)
  • AI/ML product UX
  • Design systems at scale
  • Accessibility (WCAG, ARIA, EAA)
  • Data visualization and observability UX
  • Consumer electronics and TV UX
  • Automotive UX
  • Health and medical UX
  • Smart home / IoT UX
  • Developer tooling UX

Craft

  • Figma (advanced — systems, prototyping, variables)
  • UI and interaction design
  • UX research and synthesis
  • Creative and art direction
  • Concept design
  • Typography and visual design
  • Motion and microinteraction design
  • Frontend architecture (design-to-dev handoff)
  • Illustration

Tools

  • Figma
  • Zeroheight
  • Storybook
  • Knapsack
  • Jira
  • Confluence
  • Notion
  • Miro
  • FigJam
  • OpenClaw
  • Claude