He received a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial design from Kyoto Institute of Technology in 1983, and PhD degree in design from
He is a part time teacher of special design course at
Design Award
[1] Received 19 iF Product Design Awards in Germany, including 'Top 10' awards for an IBM LCD monitor and the ThinkPad TransNote, and 'Best of category' awards for the ThinkPad Power series from 1993-2002.
[2] Received a 'Top 3' iF Interaction Design Award from the iF design committee in
[3] Received 5 IDEA Design Awards including a gold award from the NewsWeek Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) in the
[4] Received 45 Good Design Awards including Best Design and Best of Category from MITI in
[5] Received 12 Red Dot Design Awards including Best of Best by Design ZenTrum in
[1] "Listening and Leading in User-Focused Design", Proceedings of ICSID 2001, pp. 382-388, 2001. This article describes the design approach for ThinkPad. ICSID (International Council of Societies of Industrial Design) is an international design organization.(Co-author)
[2] "Putting the "D" in UCD: User-Centered Design in the ThinkPad Experience Development", International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, Volume 14, Numbers 3&5, pp. 307-334, 2002: This describes the UCD approach for ThinkPad.(Co-author)
[3] "Universal Web Approach to Web Contents for a Company Web Site," Think 1st International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, Universal Access in HCI, pp. 747-751, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001: This article is describing a new design approach for the Web from a universal design viewpoint.(Co-author)
[4] "Proposal for Spiral Design Approach", 2nd International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing,
[5] "Proposal for Design Method Considering User Experience "Proceedings, International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc., Las Vegas, 2005
[6] "Experience Design that Drives Consideration" Design Management Review, Winter 2006,P.47~54,Design Management Institute (Co-author)
[7] "Design Tools for User Experience Design ", Proceedings, International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction,