Groke
A situational awareness system to make seafaring safer, one vessel at a time
MY ASICS
A suite of training tools to help runners reach their performance goals.
Medium's reading experience and typography are a benchmark in the industry. We were asked by the design team to help extend this experience to their Japanese users.
Repro
Product design and marketing in the customers' language
To inform Airbnb's redesign of host-facing services, we ran two weeks of interviews with Airbnb's research team in their two biggest cities: Paris & London.
We helped bridge conversations between this Silicon Valley start-up and their Japanese provider by understanding what matters to the consumer and building the right UI for the market.
We designed dashboards, messages, and data visualizations for SF-based startup ModuleQ to help sales teams stay on top of priority clients.
Gengo Translation UI
A translation workflow design that reduces clicks and speeds job turnover.
Moodstone with Google
An emotional object beyond the smartphone
To increase user retention in Daybreak's upcoming health diary mobile app, we explored various micro-interactions around positive reinforcement and motivation.
To inform a rethink of this US-based mobile security app, we interviewed Japanese users to understand their concept of security, and how technology decisions are made within the family.
To encourage the formation of consistent study habits with iKnow's English language learners, we redesigned the onboarding and course placement flows of their leading app.
Tokyo Art Beat
Getting Tokyoites and New Yorkers out to experience art via AQ-designed websites and apps.
We designed a community hub to help the Google Polymer team support a community of developers as they imagine, create and publish components for the modern web.
MuPon
A simple app to nudge casual art goers to Tokyo's museums.
Art Setouchi
Website for a 100 day art festival attracting enthusiasts from around the world.
Marathon Navigator
An app to support the emotional and logistical needs of runners during Marathon races.
Google Multiscreen World
A tablet-optimized interactive data exploration and presentation tool.
Tokyo Illustrators Society
Japan's professional organization for illustration publishes decades of creativity online.
Videogram Embed
A player designed for how people really watch video
Meekee, the Slack bot
Our first bot for distributed teams sends just-in-time meeting notifications from Google Calendar.
Suiren, a Kanji Explorer
An interactive learning and exploration tool to show relationships between the thousands of characters that make up the Japanese language. Made by Marion Kamoike-Bouguet with AQ.
Doorkeeper
As DK's design partner, we're designing tools for organizers to promote professional and community events in Japan.
Kawakura
We designed and operated a speciality coffee service to learn about building customer relationships within a subscription business.
Postcard Kit
A tool to send postcards while you travel. Born in a service design workshop, we produced 100 kits. As featured on Spoon & Tamago.
Japan Map Kit
Editable data maps to help people create infographics and visual content on the topics of 311
311 Creative Industry Survey
A research project on how people in the creative industries were affected by events following March 11th, 2011.
We've made great things with...
- ASICS
- ATND
- Bagcheck
- Brands 4 Friends
- Cookpad
- Echigo-Tsumari Art Field
- Etsy
- Gengo
- Internet Initiative Japan
- Lookout
- Lumosity
- Mitsubishi
- Monoco
- Mozilla
- NHK
- Open Network Lab
- Onitsuka Tiger
- Original Stitch
- Recruit
- Roppongi Hills
- Setouchi IAF
- Tokyo Art Beat
- Tokyo Designers Week
- Tokyo Metropolitan Government