Primary Job Title Founder Primary Organization Secret lab, Inc.
Location Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Regions Asia-Pacific (APAC) Gender Male
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Nobuya Sato is the Founder of Secret Lab Inc. since March 2011, an experienced designer and a mobile platform strategist with over 17+ years of extensive experience for designing the user experience of the interactive media.
Based in Tokyo, currently Nobuya is also a Director of Product Strategy at AKQA.
Nobuya was a Vice President of User
Experience & Japanese Operations at Seesmic, a San Francisco based social media management company, and a founder of the Secret lab, an user experience and design consultancy.
Before joining Seesmic, Nobuya was a Producer at Creative Strategy Office of Sony Creative Center, engaged and led the New Mobile User Experience platform strategy and Slate User Experience Design Initiative for the networked products and services. He was a core member of Sony's Android initiatives since the beginning.
Prior to Sony, Nobuya was the Head of Information Architecture and led User Experience team at several global interactive agencies like Razorfsh, Sapient, and iXL.
Nobuya is an active speaker and author on Information Architecture and User Experience in Japan, specialized in Experience Design, Design Strategy, Enterprise IA, Global Web Strategy, and Android UI framework.
Nobuya holds a Bachelor's degree in Product Design from Kobe Design University.