Strategic Product Design

I design the product
your customer keeps.

Not design to function. Design to feel.

For DTC founders and CEOs who understand that product design is the last unfakeable brand asset.

iF Design Award Good Design Award Eastern Craft · Western Market
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The approach

Where commercial
strategy meets craft.

Every engagement starts with one question: what is the moment this product earns trust? Not the moment it gets noticed. The moment it gets kept.

Eleven years in the Japanese hardware industry taught me that the distance between a good product and a beloved one lives in decisions most people don't see.

The temperature of the surface.
Whether it belongs on the shelf.
The sound a box makes when it first opens…

I bring that discipline to brands that sell direct — where the unboxing is the first handshake, and the product itself has to close the sale.

Design process
Design studio process
Product detail
CMF Strategy · Industrial Design 2024

HelloKlean

Redesigned a plumbing component into a skincare ritual object. Featured by Designwanted · Selfridges listing · Brita strategic investment.

HelloKlean shower filter design
Industrial Design · Japan 2022

Noend Air Blow

Gave invisible airflow technology a form that communicates precision before you turn it on. Featured in Japan consumer electronics media.

Noend Air Blow hair dryer
Industrial Design · DTC Wellness 2023

Cadre BioFresher

Transformed a utilitarian food sanitizer into a kitchen counter object people choose to display. IPX7 waterproof, precision-engineered.

Cadre BioFresher food sanitizer
Availability

I work with 4–6 brands per year.

If you're a founder building a product that must earn its place on the counter, and in the customer's life — let's talk.

Let's Talk