Product Design, Strategy & Growth

A Brief Note

I’ve operated on both sides of product - shaping user experiences as a Senior Product Designer, and owning customer acquisition and growth as a Senior Product Manager.

Across 9 years and 2 countries - the U.S. and Japan - I’ve learned how to carry an idea from customer insight through design and launch to adoption and product growth. These folders hold the highlights, lowlights, and a few things that actually made it into the world.

Selected work in folders

2017-2026

Photography

Essence

Since 2019, I embarked on a personal photography project titled Essence, an ongoing exploration of the fundamental qualities of light, form, and movement. Inspired by Rinko Kawauchi's serene, poetic style.

My work focuses on the fundamental elements of the world as they reveal themselves through light, place, and time. To photograph it is not to stop it, but to witness a brief alignment of color, shape, and rhythm.

In this series, I invite the viewer to shift attention away from objects and toward presence: the water, not its container; the flame, not the lighter. These qualities - light, heat, wetness - are rarely noticed, yet they are constant, forceful, and essential.

Guided by: Christopher Giglio
(MoMA certified photographer)

Ice floating in a clear glass, photographed from above — Essence / 2019—Current

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Fish moving through softly colored water — Flow

A curled green plant with a bead of water — Twist

A small plant and soil arranged in strong light — Origin

Pink flowers seen through a transparent water vessel — Vessel

A young tree secured to the earth with crossing straps — Root

Water boiling in a metal pot over a blue flame — Boil

A translucent curtain seen through a window — Navigate

Smoke curling around a small flame — Burn

A sheet of paper burning softly along its edge — Edge

Illustration · Motion · Experiments

Playground

A collection of things made to explore an idea, learn a new medium, or simply follow curiosity. These creative practices may live outside my product design work, but they continuously shape how I think and design.