Archives

2022

• Marking space

• Taking up space

• ‘Editing’ the office workspace

2021

• How to be in tip-top shape on the day of a user interview

• Running an in-lab research project in the midst of a global pandemic

• Remote UX research: A guide to shipping a “lab” to participants

2018

• Evolving our practice of interaction design —ideas from Interaction 18

2017

• Making Meekee, a Slack bot using Google Calendar

• Design Sprints in Japan

• Gracefully joining a conference call (and our Slack bot to help with that)

2016

• Redesigning the Design Review

• Seven rules for perfect Japanese typography

2015

• A Practice of Ethics: Five Questions for Designers

2014

• The story of the AQ Postcard Kit

• AQ welcomes Mathieu and Mamiko

• AQ is opening an office in Paris

2013

• Placing a stone on a path

• AQ Event Report: the Induction of the Little Printer

2012

• Choices, choices, choices

• AQ and Open Network Lab to lift User Experience quality for Tokyo’s Startups

2011

• Event Report: The New Context Conference 2011 Fall

• AQ visits Open Network Lab for a UX Cram Session

• How Responsive Web Design becomes Responsive Web Publishing

• Subject lines from Barack Obama's email newsletter are written for forwarding.

• What we can learn about service design from Google+

• Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami Creative Industry Survey Results

• Summer Adventures in Echigo Tsumari

• Interview: Takram and the Muji Notebook app

• Collaboration: Metallic Printing with Roland

• Map Kit for 2011 Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami

• Infographics Roundup: 2011 Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami

• Interview: Designing a Website for Art Setouchi

• Make Me Want To Visit Your Exhibitions!

2010

• AQ event report: Re-thinking Museums

• Creating a “Comfortably Bilingual” Talk Event (Part One)

• Event wrapup: Adam Greenfield’s “Becoming Real”

• Gap’s Barcode Member Drive: Connecting physical stores and online services

• New Office: Ladder Shelves

• TAB Talks: Tweeting Art Setouchi

2009

• Meiji Redesigns, Replaces Legendary Wordmark

• AQ Field Trip: Echigo Tsumari Art Triennial

• "If you've worked on two records a year and they both suck, then you've blown a year"

• Tokyo Art Map featured in “Layouts for Catalogs and Pamphlets”

• Milestones and Google Analytics

2008

• Design localization Google's home page in Asia

2007

• CBC-net Interview: Khoi Vinh

• The Case for New Type

• Facetime 6: Type Designer Nikola Djurek on Amalia

• Facetime 5: Type Designers Kai Oetzbach and Natascha Dell on Jenny

• Facetime 4: Type Designer Chester Jenkins on Galaxie Polaris

• Facetime 3: Type Designer Jarno Lukkarila on Xtra Sans

• Facetime 2: Type Designer Jeremy Tankard on Bliss

• Facetime 1: Type Designer Eric Olson on Klavika

• Pecha Kucha Nights: Guide to Better Presentations Skills

2005

• Wayfinding in Tokyo: Local Context and Direction Map Design

2004

• Japanese Typography on the Web and Beyond: Part One

• Japanese Typography on the Web and Beyond: Part Two