Hi, I’m Taka Shimokobe. Welcome to one of my spots on the web.
I'm a User Experience and Product Designer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. While I specialize in interaction design and rapid prototyping, I enjoy working in all phases of the product life-cycle. I'm driven to find solutions to complex problems.
I've designed at places like Workday and Project Jupyter, and once helped build a design community at my alma matter from the ground up.
Outside design, I'm passionate about heavy metal, community, strong coffee, and pixel platformers.
I’ll be returning to Workday as a full-time adult in September. In the meantime, I'm accepting freelance design or development work. Let's get in touch!
You can connect with me here.
Education
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
B.S. Liberal Arts and Engineering Studies
Minor. Psychology
Experience
Workday
Product Design Intern
June 2019 — Sept 2019
Project Jupyter
UX Design Intern
March 2018 — June 2019
Cal Poly User Experience
Director, Design Education
March 2019 — Sept 2019
Skills
Design
Figma, Sketch, Research Methods, Interaction Design, Visual Design, Rapid Prototyping, User Testing
Development
HTML/CSS, SASS, Javascript, React, Python, C, Java, Assembly