Tokyo Design: Your Best UX Career Buddy in Japan

Hey, Product Friends! 👋
Welcome to Tokyo Design Community — Leading AI-driven product design communities in Japan, where design meets technology, business, and the tools shaping what comes next. We're all about practical insights, real-world experience, and learning together.

This session, we're getting honest about something a lot of us are quietly figuring out: what it actually means to build solo with AI and how that compares to designing inside a big product team.
Our speaker, Simon Callsen, spent 7+ years on the design team at Shopify before stepping into solo building here in Tokyo. Now he's creating on his own, with AI as a teammate and he'll walk us through what he's building today, what changed in how he works, and what he gained (and lost) along the way. 🚀

You might be wondering...
✨ What does a solo designer's workflow actually look like when AI does the heavy lifting?
✨ How is building alone with AI different from shipping inside a team at a company like Shopify?
✨ Which parts of "the team" can AI replace and which parts really can't?
✨ What new skills matter most when you're the designer, builder, and shipper all at once?
✨ Are other designers feeling this shift too and what have they learned from it?

What we'll do together:

1. Simon's keynote sharing his unfiltered career stories, insights and best practice with AI
2. Q&A and honest conversation about where product design is heading
3. Networking

This isn't a polished keynote. It's a real, open conversation with real human connections about how we're all learning to build in this new AI era. 💬