Design Strategist, Project Director, Takram
Ken Fujiyoshi
Talk
Making things work: The role of pendulum thinking approach in the age of AI
With AI’s growth, our role as designers is rapidly shifting. As in software engineering, AI has reshaped the act of making — creating designs, generating variations, applying consistent design languages. Drawing on Takram’s past work, Ken reflects on how design is all about going in circles, stitching patchworks across initial ideas and forcefully bringing it all together to make it finally “work” — a nature rooted in making, yet not limited to making things, but making sense and making things work.
Profile
Ken is a design strategist at Takram, a design innovation firm based in Tokyo, London, New York and Shanghai. As a strategist, he is interested in how a technology is structured and embraced by society; as a designer, in how people perceive and interact with it — establishing their own culture and understanding around it, often across disciplines and regions.