Taichi Kozaki

TAICHI KOZAKI

Berlin based product designer. I simplify tangled up UX, streamline internal workflows, and overhaul your unmanageable design system.

 

Experience

Professional Experience

Cable
Staff Product Designer
Berlin, Germany (remote)
Jan 2024 to present

Moss
Lead Product Designer
Berlin, Germany
April 2022 to Dec 2023

Sharpist
Lead Product Designer
Berlin, Germany
August 2020 to March 2022

Revolut
Product Designer
Berlin, Germany
May 2020 to August 2020

BCG Digital Ventures
Senior Experience Designer
Berlin, Germany
February 2019 to April 2020

R/GA
Senior Experience Designer
Austin, TX & London, UK & Tokyo, JPN
March 2013 to November 2018

 

Education

Bachelor of Fine Arts - Advertising Design
Savannah College of Art and Design
Savannah, GA
Fall 2010 to March 2013

Summer Intensive Program - Interaction Design
School of Visual Arts
New York City, NY
Summer 2012

 

Online Course

Nanodegree - Intro to Programming
Udacity
Course Completed in March 2018
HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Python

 

Volunteer & Side projects

Mentor
ADPList.org
Remote
March 2021 to Dec 2021

Volunteer Teacher
ReDI School of Digital Integration
Berlin, Germany
March 2020 to December 2020

Rainbow Austin
Chatbot for local LGBTQ+ Resources

Austin, TX
August 2018
Read the press article

R/GA Connected Snowglobe
Austin, TX
November/December 2017
Read the press article

London Chapter Organizer
CreativeMornings
London, UK
September 2015 to June 2016

Mentor
Hyper Island Startup Bootcamp
London, UK
April 2016

Article: Why the smart banking revolution has yet to happen
Campaign.co.uk
October 2015
Read the article

Assistant Director
Rebound (Film)
Brooklyn, NY      
Summer 2011
See the project page

 

Skills & Languages

Wireframe/Prototyping

Product Features Definition

Creative Concepting

Design System

User Research

Information Architecture

Chat-bot Design

Japanese

English

German (B2)

HTML/CSS/JavaScript/Python (Intro level)


In case you are wondering where I have lived...

It's a long story.

 

Tokyo, Japan

–2006

Grew up in Tokyo dreaming about my world beyond dealing with overly crowded commuter trains every day. 

 
 

Phoenix, AZ

2006–2007

Discovered my love with a late-night Arizona burrito at Filiberto's and sipping horchata under the 105ºF/40ºC weather.

 
 

Seattle, WA

2008–2011

Prepped a portfolio for my art schools admission at a community college while my parents were thinking that I was applying for University Washington's Business School on the other side of the Pacific.

 
 

Savannah, GA

2011–2013

I spent most of my time in front of a poorly equipped MacBook running all things Adobe or drinking PBR out of red solo cups.

 
 

New York City, NY

2012

Didn't get accepted to any Summer internship in NYC, so I signed up for an interaction design summer school and went there anyway.

 
 

Austin, TX

2013–2014

Tacos🌮, Music🎷, Bicycle🚴, Yoga🤸🏽‍♂️ and Cortado☕️. 

"but... no, I am not a hipster."

 
 

London, UK

2014–2016

London was so expensive; I learned how to negotiate at fried chicken shops to get extra drumsticks with loose changes in my pocket.

 
 

Austin, TX

2016–2018

Admitting the fact that I might be a hipster. Moved back to 300 days of Sunshine.

 
 

Berlin, Germany

2019– 

If you're looking for me, skip the techno clubs and head straight to the sunny park. I'll be there, roller skating to my favorite Broadway musical tunes.