Tokyo Design: Your Best UX Career Buddy in Japan

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About us

🌵 Tokyo Design is an AI-native, design-led community hub dedicated to empowering product designers, developers, and builders through hands-on practice and collective learning. Based in Tokyo with a global reach across Europe, the UK, and North America, we bridge theory and practice through workshops, design jams, hackathons, and expert-led keynotes.
Our pillars:

📒 Continuous, practical expertise
Deliver actionable insights through hands-on workshops that help designers level up job-hunting skills and tackle real-world workplace design challenges.
✨ AI-native product design excellence
Support rising designers in creating high-quality AI-native product experiences by embedding best practices into their workflows and ensuring outstanding AI user experiences.
➰ Rapid idea validation for builders
Help builders quickly validate product ideas through iteration, usability testing, and structured brainstorming—driving clearer decisions and stronger business outcomes.
🧑‍🎨 Design & builder talent pool
Connect designers and builders with the right clients, roles, and companies—creating meaningful matches that benefit both talent and organizations.

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[In-Person] From prototype to Get First Paid User
Sun, Dec 13 · 1:00 PM JST
札の辻スクエア, 5-chōme-36-4 Shiba, Minato City, Tokyo 108-0014, Japan, Minato City, JP
Hey, Product Friends! ✨
Welcome to Tokyo Design Community, we are the leading AI-driven product design communities in Japan.
We're focused on AI-native practical insights, real-world experience, job-hunting in Japan, career advancement and learning together.

This session, we’re tackling a question many of us carry quietly: I have an idea, but I’m not technical. Can I really turn it into a business? We’ll hear from pioneers who have done exactly that, then roll up our sleeves in a hands-on AI building session.
Today, AI tools make it easier for non-technical people to explore ideas, build prototypes, and take their first steps toward launching a business.
To explore this journey, we're welcoming a former Tokyo Design participant who has since started her own company and a seasoned entrepreneur who go global by building local experience with AI

You might be wondering:
- Where do I start when I have an idea but no technical background?
- How much can AI really build for me, and where do I still need people?
- How do I know if my idea is worth turning into a business?
- How to get my first paid users after protoypes?

Agenda
- 🎙️ Keynote
- 💡 Get direct feedback from the speakers: Share your product or business idea, and get feedback or a playbook that fits you.
- 🛠️ Optional building session: Keep building your idea, or get feedback.
- 🙌 Networking
🎙️ Featured Speaker:
Abhishek Gupta
Topic: How to go global by building local experience with AI
Abhishek Gupta is a tech entrepreneur and Founder & CEO of OneInbox AI. He started his career as a telecaller at a young age and went on to build a global Voice AI platform focused on automating business communications at scale. With deep experience in contact center operations and AI-driven automation, Abhishek is building next-generation AI agents that can handle real conversations across calls, messaging, and other channels, reducing human workload while improving efficiency and customer experience.
OneInbox AI is a Voice AI Agent platform that automates business communications across phone, WhatsApp, and email. Its human-like AI agents handle sales, support, and operations — cutting wait times and costs while scaling customer interactions.

Frida Halltorp
Topic: From a hackathon idea to its first 100 users.
For a year, Frida Halltorp tried (and failed) to explain the idea behind Onuai. In 2025, she finally built its first version during a hackathon at Tokyo Design.
Her path to founding has been anything but conventional: guiding travelers across 14 countries through deserts, jungles, and the occasional crisis, leading projects at a startup, managing business at a major corporation, and making her own art throughout. All of it meets in Onuai — a visual platform blending art, storytelling, and technology to help people treat life as an adventure they shape: pick a direction, break it into steps, see the progress. Her bigger vision reaches beyond the screen, connecting people with places and experiences that help them stay brave and curious.
Now returning to Tokyo, Frida shares the messy reality of taking an idea from a hackathon to its first 100 users.

🙌 Meet our Event Partner- Minato City Industry Promotion Center
The Minato City Industrial Promotion Center is Tokyo’s hub for connecting “the power of business, people, and community.” Based in Tamachi, it supports startups, entrepreneurs, and small businesses through coworking spaces, seminars, and open-innovation programs — bringing together companies, creators, embassies, and global startup ecosystems across Minato City. We’re proud to co-create this event with them, opening up AI and business to a wider community.

Our Community: Where Curiosity Meets Opportunity, Theory Meets Practice
💫 We're a diverse, welcoming collective of:
👩‍💻 Product Managers
🎨 Designers & Creators
🧑‍💼 Builders & Entrepreneurs
🛠️ Developers & AI Engineers
📈 Marketers
📚 Students
✨ A supportive, judgment-free zone to exchange ideas and grow togeth

Let's grow sideways, stay rooted, and land what's next, together. 🌱
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