Kenzo Nakamura is a full-stack engineer & product designer passionate about consumer products, functional UIs, and emerging technologies.
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Meta
A social metaverse company.
San Francisco
Bustle Digital Group
An online magazine conglomerate w/ 115M MAU.
New York City
ConsenSys (3Box)
Consensys is a blockchain venture studio creating products for Ethereum.
New York City
Midnight Commercial
A design studio founded by MIT Media Lab alumni creating next-gen experiences for brands.
New York City
Microsoft Research
The Hololens Team under the Microsoft Research department.
New York City / Redmond
IDEO
Storied innovation and design thinking firm.
Palo Alto
HackerRank
A platform for coding challenges and job sourcing.
Palo Alto
Nissan
Advanced concepts car design studio.
Tokyo
Experience List
Creative Technologist (2022)
Designed, prototyped, and developed new products & experiences for next-gen ad surfaces for VR/AR, Web3/NFTs, Generative AI, and the web.
Senior Product Engineer (2020-21)
Built out BDG's sprawling in-house WYSIWYG CMS, Typeset. Implemented highly detailed magazine-class designs for 13 different internationally recognized brands, such as W Magazine, Nylon, Bustle, and Inverse.
Full Stack Dev & Product Designer (2018-2020)
The sole front end dev at an 8 person startup. Took several consumer products from 0 to production. Designed, implemented, tested, maintained, and wrote documentation for all front end properties (social app, developer portal, five React UI node packages) all built with 3Box's core JS SDK and interacting with decentralized protocols Ethereum and IPFS.
AR/UX/UI Design & Prototyping Intern (2017)
Worked as a graduate intern designing and prototyping novel user experiences and interfaces at a tech agency founded by MIT Media Lab Alumni.
AR/UX/UI Design & Prototyping Intern (2017)
Worked under Microsoft Research to design an augmented reality product for the Hololens. Presented to Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington.
UX/UI, Industrial Design & 3D Modeling (2016)
Worked as a UX/UI & Industrial Designer at IDEO to help ideate on the future of shared mobility services and products. We created a 3D model and several user stories that highlight the results of our research.
UX/UI Designer (2015-16)
Architected UX flows with the department's lead PM, designed pixel perfect interfaces for the HackerRank For Work team in India, organized white-paper designs and crafted ads for the product marketing team.
UX/UI & Industrial Designer (2012-15)
Created industrial designs, product concepts, and UX / UIs for production cars, concept cars, and experimental in-house projects.
Experience Description
Engineering
Design
Web3
AR / VR
Engineering
Engineering
Design
Web3
Engineering
Design
Design
AR / VR
Design
Design
Design
Experience Domains
Engineering
Design
Web3
AR/VR
Project Filters
harmony-ny
Bustle Digital Group
3Box Hub
3Box Components
Microsoft Hololens
The Patron Experience
HackerRank
BlackPepper
Project List
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