Aki Fukai, Product Designer

About

Hi, I design digital products.

I’m the annoying curious kid asking questions like: Is this a problem worth solving? How do we know? Then distilling and testing educated guesses with prototypes before bringing them to life in an agile and collaborative way — together with product people and software engineers.

Currently I’m designing products and services with precious design studio in Hamburg — mainly working on enfore to empower small businesses with technology which until today was only available for large corporates.

Prior to that I worked at the fintech startup collectAI which was born at Liquid Labs. And until then I helped international and small enterprises, ventures and agencies in Germany and Switzerland to architect and design their digital experiences and services in a broad range of industries since the late nineties.

I believe technology should follow a clear purpose and based on this, give people super powers to feel and do better in their lives.

Get in touch

Selected clients — recent

Recent past

Until 2011

academics.de
Audi
BMW (bmw.com)
CTS Eventim AG
Daimler (Mercedes-Benz)
Sqoops, Doomster (until 11.2008)
Trilux

Selected agencies

Selected products

collectAI — Receivables. Redefined.
Unify Circuit — a new way to work, case study (frog design) — formerly Project Ansible (video)
SBB iPad app & web app — based on GIS technology
SAP Fiori App Finder and SAP Fiori Launchpad — (video)
Social Media Summary for Netbreeze — empowerd by machine learning and NLP

Liebeskind Berlin — online-shop
Responsive corporate website for a Aquila Capital — content first
Immonet: Real Estate Search
o2 eCommerce portal — shop and brand portal

Services

Product design
User experience consulting
Concept development
Information architecture
Interaction design
User interface design
Prototyping
Product discovery
User & customer journeys
Visual design
Digital branding
Coaching
Mentoring
UX/UI design hiring

Means

Ideation and research tools

Lo-fi to hi-fi responsive prototypes
User-tests
Design systems
Living style guides
User interviews (thinking aloud)
user flows & wireframes
Content inventory

Means, not ends

Responsive web applications
Multi-lingual responsive online-shops
Large content managed responsive websites
Native apps

Industries

Financial services
Telecommunication / ICT
IT / Information technology
eCommerce
Renewable energy
Live events
Business software