# Namika Hamasaki > Staff Product Designer @ Superhuman (formerly Grammarly) | Hybrid Product-Brand Designer | Published Book Author Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/namika With 15+ years experience in the design and tech industry, I bring expertise in both brand and product design, weaving a brand's unique personality into every product touchpoint. Growing up immersed in Japan's manga culture sparked my fascination with building unique "sekai-kan" (brand universes) – a perspective I bring to every project. From crafting user interfaces to designing marketing websites, I create cohesive and delightful experiences that resonate with people. https://namika.framer.website/ ## Work Experience ### Staff Product Designer @ Superhuman Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Staff Product Designer @ Grammarly Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Principal Visual Designer @ All Turtles Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area Airtime (prev. mmhmm) - Redesigned the whole website as rebranding from mmhmm to Airtime - Infused the new brand to the app installer ### Senior Visual Designer @ All Turtles Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area Working on mmhmm, our studio product. I am at the intersection of brand and product. I handle a wide range of visual needs, from in-app visuals to marketing design. ・Modularized the marketing website collaboration with engineers to ensure brand consistency and enable faster landing page deployment, rebuilding all components and building a comprehensive design system ・Built visual assets that allow users to create effective storytelling and appealing videos easily ・Created storyboards and worked with a motion designer to produce videos that effectively communicated product use cases ### Senior Product & Brand Designer @ All Turtles Jan 2019 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area All Turtles is a globally distributed product studio. My role involves high cross-functional collaboration, contributing to design strategy, and establishing visual identities as I help build products from 0 to 1. As a Product Designer: • Partnered with founders to devise a comprehensive product strategy, aligning high-level concepts with the product vision and detailed mockups; contributed to fundraising efforts • Developed and refined user flows, wireframes, and prototypes to demonstrate the new concept of a browser extension and web application dashboard • Built a design system embedded with brand guidelines, empowering the client's designers and engineers to deliver consistent user experiences • Collaborated closely with product management, design lead, engineering, and researchers to translate business and user needs into visual and interaction design: creating pixel-perfect high-fidelity mockups and prototypes • Facilitated a seamless design handoff to the engineering team, ensuring timely and precise implementation of design specifications As a Brand Designer: • Designed logos for products we built; Twisty Tongue and Vitally • Developed a 24-hour color system that applied to Sora brand identity and its website • Created brand guidelines alongside brand patterns, typography, and colors, etc ### Book Author @ How Might We Learn English as a Designer? (デザイナーの英語帳) Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 My book "How Might We Learn English as a Designer? (デザイナーの英語帳)", published in 2020, has guided Japanese designers in learning English, and has been translated and published in Korea. It's also a weekly newsletter. ### Product & Brand Designer @ Unknown Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 I specialized in crafting and nurturing digital product brands through visual and interaction design. I shaped brand identities for early-stage startups, established brand philosophies, and created visual identities, providing brand guidelines. My improvements made products not only visually appealing but also functional. Kipp – Financial mobile app • Developed brand identity • Art-directed illustrations that were used for the website, product, and onboarding • Developed visual design for their first mobile app, working closely with a product manager Laughly – Comedy streaming iOS app • Conducted research and competitive analysis to gather insights and identify user pain points • Created lo-fi prototypes and tested them with users to ensure adherence to usability conventions • Developed a design system for the team, leading to increased efficiency and a faster design process Finery – Wardrobe operating system • Created and iterated sketches and low-fidelity for dashboard redesign • Produced high-quality prototypes that effectively addressed users’ pain points and met project objectives • Audited the existing components and created a design system with the refreshed visual for consistency Wonolo – On-demand staffing platform • Led a team of 6 designers to enhance iOS and Android apps, resulting in an improved user experience • Conducted a successful design workshop, utilizing sketches and wireframes that aligned with client goals and user needs • Delivered a hi-fidelity Android prototype that effectively met client goal of increasing finished profile ### Product Designer @ LiB, Inc. Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Tokyo, Japan LiB is an HR tech company in Japan. It provides LiBzCAREER, a job search marketplace platform. • Conducted user interviews to identify and address user needs, leading the redesign of the platform • Established a design system that ensured consistency across multiple platforms, including iOS app, mobile, and web apps • Collaborated with engineers and PM to enhance growth design, resulting in an increased open rate for messages and a higher number of job interviews ### Interactive Planner / Designer (On-Loan) @ SIX Inc Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Tokyo, Japan SIX is a creative agency specializing in brand strategy. Clients: Google, Niantic, and PlayStation • Conceptualized and executed integrated campaigns with a focus on branding for Google and PlayStation across events, social media, and digital experiences • Contributed to the launch promotion of Pokémon GO by crafting visually appealing user interfaces for a promotional video ### Web Designer @ HAKUHODO i-studio Jan 2009 – Jan 2015 | Tokyo, Japan • Developed and executed comprehensive design strategies for large-scale corporate websites • Contributed to the success of Toyota’s sales efforts by designing a visually stunning and user-friendly catalog iPad app for automobile dealers ### Interactive Planner (On-Loan) @ Hakuhodo Inc. Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Tokyo, Japan ### Web Designer @ Hatena Co., Ltd. Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 | Kyoto, Japan ## Education ### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Department of Communication Design Kyoto University of Art & Design Jan 2005 – Jan 2009 ### Advanced Product Design Immersive Program Tradecraft Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/namika-hamasaki - Portfolio: https://namika.framer.website/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/namika JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/namika/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-30