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

I recently worked on:

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

Plantolympics

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