Yahiro Nakamoto
中本 八尋
design engineer, service designer.
Where Craft meets AI — I've designed UI for digital products since before generative AI, weaving a sense of play into the experience. As AI takes the spotlight and UI fades, I'm drawn to what stays with you the moment you touch it. That's why I take craft seriously — the space between AI and UI, made with play and a light touch.
By day
I'm currently at Takram, working primarily with major Japanese companies. Most recently, I led design and implementation for Mitsubishi Electric's Serendie Design System — translating fine-grained behaviors into code, while helping the system take root inside the organization and across its AI workflows. Building it, rolling it out, making it easy to use — I move on these tracks in parallel. From design systems to magazines, my work spans a wide range of projects, all rooted in design.
Nights and weekends
Alongside my main work, I keep making small, joyful products. Ideas drift through my head constantly, but it's only when I shape them into something real that their outlines come into focus — and that's a quiet pleasure for me.
Recently: Triptyque, a journaling app for travel, and our croft, a new shape for a design firm and the community around it. Making things on my own, then watching them quietly spread and form connections — that's what keeps pulling me back in.
