Projects
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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:
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
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
