Takuya Idehara

- Industrial design consulting, CAD designs, Manufacturing consulting, Color/Materials/Finish (soft and hard goods) consulting, Design strategy consulting, Design research consulting.

- Designed and launched UI for Masimo's first consumer wearable running on a custom Masimo operating system.
- Designed and developed capnography accessory to expand product offerings.
- Participated in human factor and user analyses and integrating them into product designs, which resulted in a well received products by executives, doctors and patients.
- Supported R&D activities for innovative p

- Worked and managed design and design research projects with Fortune 500 companies, to small start-up type clients.
- Helped clients patent various utility and design patents created in-house, as well as won some design awards in the process.
- Design concepts, CAD design, Design for manufacturing, color/material/finish, ethnographic research, prototyping.

- Lead designer for B2B mobile accessories for both soft and hard goods
- Created a design language foundation for B2B mobile accessories
- Patented various designs of mobile accessories for the company
- Managed ODM client relationships and QA of designs

- Contract industrial design lead on various consumer electronics clients

Client Projects: Seagate CE products, JBL family of audio equipment, Infinity audio speakers, Wren sound systems, Speakercraft home audio products, Studer audio mixers, Mobee mobile accessories

- Core team member of Belkin mobile accessories designing soft and hard goods
- Managed overseas vendors on design and engineering
- Lead and patented various designs of mobile accessories for the company
- Contributed to Skunkworks projects, producing award winning products

- Hired as a core team member for a specific project, leveraging my knowledge in both soft and hard goods designs.
- Establishing short & long term strategies to update client designs and softgoods manufacturing processes.
- Guided the design team and client on various softgoods manufacturing methods
- Design support on other projects

Client Projects: Oreck vacuum cleaner, Targus computer acce

- Contributed to designing Callaway Golf's best selling golf bag
- Various softgoods related products from lacrosse and hockey protective gear, contractor protective gear, golf bags, and shoes

Client Projects: Callaway golf bags, Brine lacrosse protective gear, Shock Doctor protective gear, Ridgid protective wear, Li-ning basketball shoes

- Contributed to the design and development of 07' core line of products
- Tech-pack documentation for softgoods development
- Coordinate with overseas factories for materials, samples and finalizing designs for production

- Industrial design, design strategy & research support
- Story-boarding user scenarios derived from research
- Immersion into Italian design culture and philosophy

Client Projects: Philip Morris International brand experience, Hamilton EKG Monitor, Allsteel task chair, Energin kids toys, Guildemeister CNC machines, Neoce office desk systems, Lotto tennis shoes, Stonefly comfort shoes

- Industrial design support
- Contributed to B2B design projects
- Immersion into Swedish/Scandinavian design culture and philosophy

Client Projects: Ericsson telecom, Setred 3D LCD monitor, DeLaval milking robots, SAAB tech radar consoles, ITAB bathroom accessories, Axilon automated cash registers

- Industrial design support
- Shadowing mentors during client meetings
- Concept generation in 2D and CAD for client presentations

Client Projects: Kyocera cell phones, ANA airlines economy seating, Sanyo vacuum cleaners, Hitachi work space, Thalis in-flight entertainment controller, BenQ computer accessories, Microsoft keyboard and mouse, Jamco airplane lavatory, Umbra concept projects