hey there, I'm Takashi Wickes

I am an Visual Interaction Design Lead at the IDEO Play Lab.

Currently at IDEO, my focus has been on tackling problems for clients with either in-field prototyping and testing or designing frameworks to enable teams to tackle design challenges themselves.

and here are my featured projects

Massage Device UI

Massage Device UI

Designing and Prototyping an First-of-its-kind Interface for a revolutionary massage device

Kal-IDEO-scope

Collaborating and Digitally Prototyping a Kinetic Sculpture of 600+ butterflies

Beyond the Bag

Live prototyping new bag solutions in Walmart, Target, and CVS

and here is some more of what I have built

Brand Launch for Meta's Global Culinary Team

Directed the animation for Meta's Global Culinary's new brand

The Nature Conservancy Macroplastic Workshop

The Nature Conservancy Macroplastic Workshop

Facilitated a convening, bringing experts around the world to tackle the challenge of macro-plastics

Live Prototyping New Reusable Cup Solutions

Live Prototyping New Reusable Cup Solutions

Working with innovators to live prototype and redesign their reuseable cup solutions in-market across Palo Alto

Talk - Data Science x Design

Talk - Data Science x Design

Collaborated with IDEO Data Scientist Lisa Nash on how data science and design work together

Graduation Sticker Pack!

Graduation Sticker Pack!

Made to Celebrate my Graduation from the University of Florida • Available on Etsy

Bosnia Travel Book

Bosnia Travel Book

Illustrations from traveling across the Balkans in the summer of 2018

Battling Pokemon in Multiplayer Augmented Reality

Battling Pokemon in Multiplayer Augmented Reality

Senior Project at the University of Florida

Volunteering Design and Video Work with Project SEARCH

Volunteering Design and Video Work with Project SEARCH

Duval County Public Schools

An Ode to the Bezier Curve

An Ode to the Bezier Curve

Capstone Essay for ARH4930: Lowbrow Art History

Developing a Construction Safety Training App utilizing 360 Photography

Developing a Construction Safety Training App utilizing 360 Photography

HCTC Lab at the University of Florida

Animating a Pizza & Winning an Oven

Animating a Pizza & Winning an Oven

Sticker Mule Dribbble Playoff Grand Prize

Using Gesture Recognition for a Better Emoji Keyboard

Using Gesture Recognition for a Better Emoji Keyboard

Swipemoji Coming to the App Store 2018

Developing Accessible Field Trips with Google Cardboard

Developing Accessible Field Trips with Google Cardboard

VR for Social Good Term Project

Animating a Tomato

Animating a Tomato

Sticker Mule Dribbble Playoff Runner Up

Drawing my Face in CSS

Drawing my Face in CSS

A challenge & unlikely Medium article

Creating Tuna Pasta Podcast

Creating Tuna Pasta Podcast

Sharing the stories of Americans while on a roadtrip from FL to CA

Building Empathy for Myopia

Building Empathy for Myopia

A VR Experience to show why elementary schoolers need more glasses!

Prototyping with IDEO CoLab

Prototyping with IDEO CoLab

Winter & Summer Fellowship Class of 2017

Hacking Together with Theia

Hacking Together with Theia

A new mobile eye exam built in 36 hours

Redesigning Mango Health

Redesigning Mango Health

UX / UI Case Study

Hacking Together with Medidock

Hacking Together with Medidock

Mobile prescription tracker built in 36 hours

Building up University of Florida's Hacker Culture

Building up University of Florida's Hacker Culture

Leading organization of SwampHacks 2016 & 2017—from Web Design to Red Bull Runs

Making a Conference for Students

Making a Conference for Students

With some friends, throwing a Florida tech conference that would go international

Starting Florida Hackers

Starting Florida Hackers

A community to grow student tech in our state

Directing the Short Film: Trumpeteer

Directing the Short Film: Trumpeteer

Jury Award Winner for UF Campus Movie Fest 2016

Drawing for Microsoft

Drawing for Microsoft

Illustrating office mascots for 13 offices

Learning iOS with CodePath

Learning iOS with CodePath

Teaching and Learning iOS to UF students

Starting at the Florida Alligator

Starting at the Florida Alligator

My first work as an illustrator

aaaaaaaaand if you want more, you can find it here. Thanks!!

Dribbble

GitHub

Behance

Twitter

Linkedin

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