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Marking Space
Taking up space
Remote UX research: A guide to shipping a “lab” to participants
Seven rules for perfect Japanese typography
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
What we can learn about service design from Google+
Subject lines from Barack Obama's email newsletter are written for forwarding.
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
2010
TAB Talks: Tweeting Art Setouchi
New Office: Ladder Shelves
Gap’s Barcode Member Drive: Connecting physical stores and online services
Event wrapup: Adam Greenfield’s “Becoming Real”
Creating a “Comfortably Bilingual” Talk Event (Part One)
AQ event report: Re-thinking Museums
2009
Milestones and Google Analytics
Tokyo Art Map featured in “Layouts for Catalogs and Pamphlets”
"If you've worked on two records a year and they both suck, then you've blown a year"
AQ Field Trip: Echigo Tsumari Art Triennial
Meiji Redesigns, Replaces Legendary Wordmark
2008
Design localization Google's home page in Asia
2007
PechaKucha Nights: Guide to Better Presentations Skills
Facetime 1: Type Designer Eric Olson on Klavika
Facetime 2: Type Designer Jeremy Tankard on Bliss
Facetime 3: Type Designer Jarno Lukkarila on Xtra Sans
Facetime 4: Type Designer Chester Jenkins on Galaxie Polaris
Facetime 5: Type Designers Kai Oetzbach and Natascha Dell on Jenny
Facetime 6: Type Designer Nikola Djurek on Amalia
The Case for New Type
CBC-net Interview: Khoi Vinh
2005
Wayfinding in Tokyo: Local Context and Direction Map Design
2004
Japanese Typography on the Web and Beyond: Part Two
Japanese Typography on the Web and Beyond: Part One
