“User-Centered Design” Methodology
Overview
Many companies are seriously adopting “UX design” to win the daily competition.ØIn this workshop, you can experience the UX design approach of “observing users”, “organizing behaviors” and ”studying proposals for improvement” in a short period of time.
| 📂 Category | Innovation |
| 📌 Keywords | User Centric Design, UX Design |
| 🎯 Objectives | You can experience the UX design approach of “observing users”, “organizing behaviors” and ”studying proposals for improvement” in a short period of time. |
| 🌐 Language | Japanese (English support available) |
| 👥 Target Participants | Undergraduate & Graduate Students |
| 🗓 Format | Single session（4-hours) (in-person） |
| ✅ Past & Upcoming Sessions | Saturday, August 1, 2026, 13:00-17:00 Held annually since FY2023 |
| 📍 Venue | S4-202, Ookayama Campus |
| 🌟 Recommended for | – Students who are interested in UX Design – Students who want to practice the concept of “User Centric” – Students who want to execute & understand the core of “Leadership” and/or “Entrepreneurship” |
| 📊 Points | 4 points (Points to be awarded to students enrolled in the courses for credits. Please refer to the syllabus for details.) |
| 🎟️ Capacity | 45 participants |
Main Content
- The concept of “user-centered design approach” applied in UX design will be useful in the issues including research activities you tackle every day, and the UX design approach should become one of your weapons when you enter society in the future.
- We hope you will take this opportunity to experience UX design, develop an interest in it, and make it your own weapon.
Facilitator
Koji Okamoto
Consultant, Nico Sales Limited
After graduating from graduate school, he joined NTT Docomo, Inc. in 2004, then, IBM Japan, Ltd. In 2020, and became independent consultant in October 2024.
Past Event Records
Voices from Participants
- You can learn UX design in an easy-to-understand way through discussion and hands-on experience!(B1)
- I recommend this course because it’s a great experience to take classes with people from various years, regardless of whether they are undergraduates, masters, or doctorates. UX design was an exciting opportunity to gain new insights while creating it.(B2)
- Learn how to create designs that delight users.(B2)
- The UX Design Workshop shows you how many possible ways a user experience problem can be solved and thus unlocks new perspectives!（M1)
- What happens when you design a familiar product from the user’s perspective? By experiencing this, you can broaden your perspective on product development! (M1)
- Unlike regular classes, product development can be done in groups. This can be useful when job hunting, and more than anything, it’s a great way to spice up your boring life.（M2）
- We can explore real industry strategy about making decision by this workshop. If you want to making company, or getting a job, you should take this course!!（D1)
- This workshop can give you a framework for getting your research outside of the “ivory tower”（D1)
- I encourage every student who are currently or future entrepreneur to take advantage of this workshop. It gives you a clear understanding and step-by-step procedure on how to improve products and services.(D2)
- Thank you for ToTAL for holding such insightful workshop like this. Through this workshop I learned about how to build products with UX Design concept. This workshop will teach you on how to generate many useful ideas that can fit with the market. Ideas are not something that can easily come by just because you want it, you need to learn the schema on how to produce them in more structure way. You can learn it, for sure, through this workshop. Thank you! (D2)
Contact Faculty
Keisuke Yamada, Specially Appointed Professor, Academy for Leadership
📩 yamada.k.9f82 [at] m.isct.ac.jp
