I am Yosuke Ushigome, a designer / researcher / technologist based in London. I create future visions, build proof-of-concept prototypes and design new interactions.

I recently worked on:

An experimental tool transforming the way energy is understood

Energy Proverb Net

An interactive web experience offering practical optimism in the face of climate crisis

Three Transitions for a Human-Nature Recovery / Hitachi

Making sea level rise more tangible through AR

RISAR Prototype

Capturing nine diverse transitions towards a sustainable world

Transitions to sustainable futures / Hitachi

Trap of Utopia - Capturing People's Anxieties in a Discursive Design Project ↗

Trap of Utopia / Core77

Creating tangible illustrations of European cities' infrastructure futures in a world shaped by Covid-19

Post-Covid Infrastructure Futures / Hitachi

Global study on transformative creativities in the age of crisis

New Ecologies Research / Hitachi

Can design help us better understand the future? ↗

Interview by Wallpaper*

A whole new relation to voice assistants designed for the Swarovski Designers of the Future Award

Home Shrine / Swarovski

Process of designing more relatable AI voice assistants ― an exploration of alternative relationships between digital assistants and us ↗

Making of Home Shrine / Prototypr.io

Bringing fantastical narratives into life using unique projection techniques

We Build Worlds / Sony

Analysis of how small interaction design changes that Twitter has made on its app are contributing to an unhealthy habit ↗

Is Twitter Forcing Me To Scroll More And More? / Prototypr.io

Thought piece about how poorly designed wearable device interactions can pose a new barrier in cross-language communication ↗

Why Google’s Pixel Buds Can Be Problematic

Making tangible the experience of an MIT Media Lab's new touch sensing technology

Zensei / MIT Media Lab

Capturing a plant-based intelligence

Exploring new qualities in machine-aided translingual conversations

Omotenashi Mask

Embracing FOMO as positive skills for creating data privacy

Fidgety Machines

Exploring the energy aesthetics in a counterfactual history of hydrogen fuel cell technology

Hydrogen Ball / Toyota

Imagining a life in the world of a perfect sharing economy

Professional Sharing / 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT

A phone app and e-ink badge using the body as an instrument for protest against mass surveillance

Open Informant / Wearable Futures

Imagining a world where spectacular events replace warfare

Commoditised Warfare