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Tochio joined Goodpatch in 2018 and worked as a UI designer and manager before becoming a Creative Director in 2023. She has led projects spanning brand development and experience design for a delivery app, and now explores design that connects brand and experience beyond the boundaries of UI.

Kitamura joined Goodpatch in 2016. As manager of the UX Design Team in the Design Partnership Division, he worked on quality management and the recruitment and development of UX designers. He later helped launch the in-house product Strap as its business lead. He now leads the service designer organization in the Design Partnership Division.

Miura joined Goodpatch in 2019. As a service designer and project manager, he has worked across a wide range of projects, including renewing a legal-tech SaaS product, planning and developing the driving experience that underpins next-generation vehicles for a major automaker, and supporting a senior healthcare service from zero-to-one through growth. He now leads the service designer organization in the Design Partnership Division. He also teaches Digital Prototyping as a practicing faculty member at GLOBIS University and shares practical knowledge through UX and service design training inside and outside Goodpatch.

After working at NTT DOCOMO BUSINESS, formerly NTT Communications, Saso joined Goodpatch in 2015. He launched ReDesigner as its business lead before earning an MBA from HEC Paris. He now leads the brand experience practice in the Design Partnership Division.

After consulting sales at Macromill, Taguchi worked in business development focused on AI and data. He later joined Goodpatch and has supported more than ten B2B and B2C projects as a product manager and UX designer, spanning zero-to-one and one-to-ten phases. He currently serves as General Manager of the AI-Driven Development Unit. His strength is driving business growth from both business and product perspectives by combining business development experience with design and experience strategy.

Kawakita joined Goodpatch after working as a product manager and business lead at a SaaS company. As a UX designer, manager, and producer, he has supported clients' business growth and product development. He now leads the client services organization as General Manager of the Design Partnership Division.

After working as a UI designer and homepage business lead at Yahoo Japan, Akino served as a UX designer and organizational manager at a subsidiary of a major telecommunications company. She joined Goodpatch as a UX designer in 2022. Alongside client work, she develops UX designers and manages the UX design team. Drawing on extensive user-research-based UX design experience, she contributes articles to business media and speaks at events. She is a Certified Human-Centered Design Professional accredited by HCD-Net.

Ishii studied design in London and went on to work at a local design firm, contributing to projects across fields including healthcare and sports streaming services. He returned to Japan and joined Goodpatch in 2019. As a Brand Experience Designer, he works across engagements from defining vision, mission, and values through to product design.

After graduating from Kyoto University's Faculty of Economics, Yoneda worked in management analysis for overseas Panasonic group companies and as a marketing researcher at P&G before joining Goodpatch as a UX designer. She launched a design research solution and serves as Research Team Manager. She began a research project with Kamikawa, Hokkaido, in June 2022 and relocated there that December. She completed the CL course in the master's program at Musashino Art University.

Tanaka began his career as a web director at Dai Nippon Printing. He later led UX design at NHN Japan, now LY Corporation, and served as a design lead at Oisix. At Recruit, he worked as a UX designer across education, HR, and many other industries, and at MIXI he contributed to UX design for Monster Strike. Since joining Goodpatch, he has worked with clients across industries as a Design Strategist and applies his expertise as a workshop designer for organizational development and UX initiatives.