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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.

Number of Current Jobs 1
Number of Past Jobs 11
Nobuya Sato is the Founder at Secret lab, Inc.. Additionally, Nobuya Sato has had 11 past jobs including Director - Group User Experience at AKQA.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
AKQA
Director - Group User Experience20122014
Seesmic
VP - User Experience & Operations - JapanMar 1, 2011Dec 2011
Sony
ProducerJul 1, 2008Mar 15, 2011
Business Architects
Manager, User ExperienceSep 1, 2002May 30, 2008
Razorfish
Lead Information ArchitectFeb 2001Sep 2002
Publicis Sapient
Creative Lead2001Feb 1, 2001
iXL
IA DirectorJun 1, 20002001
Creative World Media
Art DirectorMar 2000Jun 2000
Cyber Graphics
CG DirectorDec 1994Dec 1998
OKI Electric Industry Company
Industrial DesignerApr 1993Dec 1994
Nobuya Sato studied at Kobe University.
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NewsMar 1, 2011
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