Freelancers using Figma in Japan
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Joseph Emmanuel
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Tokyo, Japan
Top Framer Expert & Product Designer for Startups
$50k+
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Top Framer Expert & Product Designer for Startups
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Yablio: Designing a Zero-Learning-Curve Mobile Inbox for SMB
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Mobile App Redesign for UK Carpooling Startup
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Designed an Enterprise Logistics OS: Scaling Global Freight Data
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Design Leadership: GAIN Co-Innovation Ecosystem & UX Research
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Lilianka Julian
Shinjuku City, Japan
Product Designer with Spicy Brain 🌶️
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Product Designer with Spicy Brain 🌶️
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Furoshiki Mass-Customization E-commerce Platform Design
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I'm re-designing my portfolio into a more creative coding approach.
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Sneak peak of my must recent project. I'm not the best at branding, but I'm grateful to have experiences that can challenge me in this area. In another note... would love for this client to join and hire me from contra directly, but I think will be difficult for some of my Japanese clients.
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Making progress with landing pages and challenging the balance between aesthetics, conversion, and usability.
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Jemirae Agency
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Tokyo, Japan
Engineering Global Systems with Elite African Talent.
$1k+
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Engineering Global Systems with Elite African Talent.
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Lockedin HQ | Unified Athlete OS & Digital CV Platform
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Casa De Crystal | Enterprise Real Estate & Legacy Branding
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Lockedin HQ | Full Brand Architecture and Identity System
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Lockedin HQ | The 1,000+ User Waitlist Website Engine Link to the website : https://lockedinhq.org/ Strategic Demand Validation for the Athlete Economy Jemirae engineered the digital gateway for Lockedin HQ to capture elite athletes and global brands pre-launch. By prioritizing Institutional Authority over flashy trends, we built a landing page that secured 1,000+ organic signups, providing the market validation needed for seed-stage growth. The Strategy: Building Trust Before the Product We treated the landing page as a Strategic Filter, not just a website. Our Logic-Driven approach focused on: Institutional Trust: A dark, high-contrast UI and Senior typography signaled a professional career tool, distancing the brand from generic social apps. Outcome-Driven Messaging: We replaced feature lists with high-authority value propositions: The Centralized OS for the Athlete Economy. The Scarcity Hook: Minimalist grid layouts created an Exclusive VIP atmosphere, driving immediate waitlist conversions. Technical Execution: Conversion Engineering To achieve a 1,000+ user milestone without ad spend, we focused on: High-Visibility CTA: A zero-noise hero section with a 1-field signup process for maximum conversion. Performance Engineering: Sub-second load times on mobile to capture high-velocity traffic from athlete social channels. Mobile-First UX: Optimized for one-handed interaction and instant trust-building. The Impact: Measured Business Results 1,000+ High-Intent Leads: Generated entirely through organic design strategy. Investor Readiness: Provided the Proof of Concept data required for early-stage funding. Market Authority: Successfully positioned Lockedin HQ as the Source of Truth in the NIL space before a single line of core code was written.
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Yuco Murakami
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Fukuoka, Japan
Full-Stack&AI Engineer Helping Businesses Automate and Scale
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Full-Stack&AI Engineer Helping Businesses Automate and Scale
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Habit Recovery App UI Design
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Immersive Hero Experience for a Premium Nature Retreat
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Title Northline Films — Cinematic Portfolio for Visual Storytelling Website Description Northline Films is a premium portfolio website created for a commercial film director whose work is presented as the primary storytelling element. Rather than relying on decorative UI components, the website embraces a cinematic philosophy where large imagery, generous spacing, refined typography, and subtle motion establish an immersive viewing experience. The design follows a dark editorial aesthetic inspired by luxury fashion campaigns, contemporary cinema, and award-winning creative studios. Every page is intentionally minimal, allowing visitors to focus entirely on the films. Smooth transitions, elegant hover interactions, and carefully balanced compositions provide a sophisticated browsing experience across desktop, tablet, and mobile devices. Instead of functioning like a traditional corporate portfolio, the website feels like a digital exhibition—inviting visitors to explore visual narratives through carefully curated film projects. Brief Content Northline Films showcases a curated collection of commercial films, branded campaigns, fashion projects, and cinematic visual stories. The homepage highlights selected works with large hero visuals before leading visitors into an organized archive of projects. Each film includes dedicated pages containing high-resolution videos, production credits, short project descriptions, behind-the-scenes photography, storyboards, and additional creative materials. A lightweight content management system allows the filmmaker to upload new work, rearrange featured projects, edit descriptions, and manage the portfolio independently without requiring technical knowledge. The entire experience is optimized for high-performance video playback, responsive mobile viewing, and modern SEO standards while maintaining a premium visual identity. Image 1 — Film Archive The first image presents the complete film library displayed as an elegant visual archive. Thirty-six cinematic projects are arranged within a carefully balanced grid, allowing visitors to browse the director's body of work without distraction. Every thumbnail serves as a visual teaser, using dramatic color grading, strong composition, and cinematic lighting to immediately communicate the tone of each project. Minimal navigation and subtle category filters keep the interface clean while helping users quickly explore fashion, automotive, lifestyle, sport, music, and branded productions. Large typography, dark backgrounds, and generous spacing reinforce the luxury editorial aesthetic, making the archive feel more like an exhibition than a traditional project listing. Image 2 — Homepage The second image illustrates the homepage experience. A striking full-screen hero image immediately captures attention, accompanied by oversized typography that establishes a strong cinematic identity. Rather than competing with the photography, the interface remains intentionally restrained, allowing the visual storytelling to dominate the screen. Below the hero section, featured projects introduce the director's most important work through carefully selected film stills. Smooth navigation, elegant transitions, and refined typography create a premium browsing experience that reflects the craftsmanship behind the films themselves. The responsive mobile layout maintains the same visual language, ensuring consistency across all devices while preserving fast loading times and immersive presentation. Image 3 — Content Management Experience The third image reveals the portfolio's content management workflow from the filmmaker's perspective. Viewed over the shoulder of a user, the interface demonstrates how featured projects can be selected through a simple and intuitive editing experience. The person's face remains hidden, placing full emphasis on the interaction between creator and portfolio. Three cinematic film stills are being selected from the complete project archive to appear as featured works on the homepage. This visual communicates one of the website's core principles: enabling creative professionals to update, organize, and curate their portfolio without technical expertise. The warm studio lighting, dark interface, and minimalist controls reinforce the premium atmosphere while illustrating the simplicity of maintaining the website after launch.
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Brand Identity Design Collection This collection showcases 9 complete brand identity concepts, each including a professionally designed logo system, color palette, typography, and basic brand guidelines. Every identity is created with a focus on simplicity, scalability, and consistency, following modern global branding standards.
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louis gersten
Shinjuku City, Japan
creating digital experiences that you want to come back to
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creating digital experiences that you want to come back to
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festival website redesign
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real estate website revamp
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product design for e-learning platform
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ux and ui for an ai review analyzer
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Yoshiko Nonaka
Tokyo, Japan
Bilingual Copywriter & Brand Messaging Strategist
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Bilingual Copywriter & Brand Messaging Strategist
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SK-II – Dialogue & Narrative Adaptation for Japan Context Global content-driven campaign spanning TV and digital formats, with involvement from storyboard-level materials through subtitle adaptation. Challenge Maintaining emotional nuance and character-driven humor in Japanese, where repeated dialogue in the TV commercial risked flattening tone and reducing engagement. The dialogue also shifts between English and Japanese, requiring subtitles to align seamlessly with lines delivered in Japanese. Approach Adapted dialogue for the TV commercial, reshaping repeated lines such as “I’m the Pitera Master!” into varied expressions that kept conversational rhythm and character voice—prioritizing natural flow over literal repetition while staying aligned with the brand’s tone. At the same time, I ensured that subtitles integrated seamlessly with Japanese lines in the dialogue—particularly in moments where Naomi Watanabe shifted into Japanese while James Corden continued in English—so the overall exchange would feel coherent and effortless. This approach carried through across campaign materials, maintaining consistency in tone and expression despite limited visibility into the full campaign context. Outcome The dialogue remained engaging and natural in Japanese, preserving both character integrity and the campaign’s emotional and narrative impact across formats. Photo © SK-II. Used for portfolio purposes.
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TikTok – Language & Content Adaptation for Japan Context Global platform brand, with work spanning campaign executions, copy guidelines, and educational content across different contexts. Challenge Adapting messaging under strict structural constraints, where timing, format, and production decisions were already defined—leaving limited flexibility for phrasing and delivery. Approach Worked across multiple projects over time—from localizing global copy guidelines to adapting campaign executions and supporting recording sessions—each with its own constraints. In some cases, it came down to clarity and flow, with little room to intervene. In others, particularly in copy guidelines, it involved reworking tone and expression to reflect cultural expectations around voice, inclusivity, and how content is meant to feel accessible and immediate. In campaign executions and recording, the focus shifted to timing and delivery—ensuring that language fit within fixed formats while matching the intended pacing and energy. Across these contexts, I worked with constraints to shape how the message could land—using them to define how far the language could go while preserving the brand’s energy—a dynamic inherent to localization. Outcome The messaging remained natural, clear, and consistent with the brand voice, allowing content to retain its intended energy and impact within tight production constraints.
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Four Seasons – Brand Voice Consistency for Japan Context Ongoing content production across global microsites, campaigns, experience-led materials, and mobile app UI under distributed workflows. Challenge Maintaining a consistent luxury brand voice in an environment driven by translation memory and multi-team production, where segment-level consistency does not guarantee coherence at the experience level. Approach Worked across global teams under distributed workflows, spanning both hands-on copy development and high-level review. Shaped tone, phrasing, and flow within existing systems—keeping the language aligned without letting it drift over time. At that level, the work often came down to word choice. A slight shift toward casual phrasing could quietly flatten the sense of refinement—especially as everyday language has become more casual, influenced by social media and online culture. What matters is not just what is said, but how it is experienced. Once it shifts, it rarely reads the same again. Outcome The brand voice remained consistent and recognizable across touchpoints, preserving refinement, trust, and a cohesive experience in the Japanese market—ensuring the brand continued to feel personal and consistent with how guests expect to be treated, even within the system and workflow constraints of localization. *Representative visual. Project for Four Seasons.
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PUMA – Brand Repositioning for Japan Context Global brand repositioning campaign (“FOREVER FASTER”) at pitch stage. Challenge Adapting a disruptive global message into Japanese without losing credibility or pushing beyond what would feel acceptable in the local context. Approach Proposed a Japanese tagline at pitch stage, reframing “Calling All Troublemakers” into a character-driven expression that kept the campaign’s rebellious edge while staying within a culturally credible range. This calibration extended to subtitles for the TV commercial featuring Usain Bolt, ensuring the same narrative energy held on screen without creating cognitive friction. Outcome The tagline was selected for the Japanese market, and the campaign landed with its intended positioning intact.
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Michael Slotta
Tokyo, Japan
Framer Expert - let's make your website stand out.
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Openlist — a waitlist template for launches that deserve an audience from day one. The idea: the list opens before the doors do. Put up a page before the product is ready, collect emails, and make sure nobody misses the news when you launch.
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Five down, two to go on my 7-template run. To celebrate, this one's free for the next 48 hours — then it goes paid. It's built for solo founders starting AI automation agencies, around one insight: they have no case studies yet. Every agency template assumes a logo wall and testimonials. When you're starting out, you have neither. So this template sells the system instead of the scoreboard — an animated pipeline diagram (custom code component, scrubbed by scroll) that shows your machine working end-to-end. The process is the proof.
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Ski & Snowboard Lodge Website
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An interactive website for people to explore.
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jam
Shinjuku City, Japan
A founder & product designer
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A founder & product designer
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Doppler — Brand identity (incomplete)
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reimagi.net, dive easily into rabbit holes
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Nina's Super Cool World
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The garden to nurture your ideas
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