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    2008年7月25日金曜日

    Introduction

    Kazuhiko Yamazaki is a professor, user experience design lab., department of design at Chiba Institute of Technology in Japan.

    Prior to that, he was design manager of user experience design center in IBM Japan, IBM Distinguished Engineer and a member of IBM Academy of Technology. He has been leading work on industrial design and human interface design in hardware and software products. His achievements are to establish ThinkPad product design and brand image as best brand image in worldwide mobile computing. Before entering IBM he worked as designer and planner for Furniture Company named Clean-up Corp. in Japan.

    He received a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial design from Kyoto Institute of Technology in 1983, and PhD degree in design from Kobe Design University in 2002.

    He is a part time teacher of special design course at Kyoto Technical University from 2002, Director of Japan Society for the Science of Design from 2004, Vice chairman of the board of directors in Human Centered Design –Net from 2005, a councilor of International Media Research Foundation.


    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
    Germany in 2001.
    [3] Received 5 IDEA Design Awards including a gold award from the NewsWeek Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) in the
    US.
    [4] Received 45 Good Design Awards including Best Design and Best of Category from MITI in
    Japan .
    [5] Received 12 Red Dot Design Awards including Best of Best by Design ZenTrum in
    Germany.


    Paper and Journal
    [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,
    Tokyo, 2001.
    [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,
    Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc., Beijin, 2007