Kenji Kaneko

Experience

Product Designer 2020 - 2021 (about 1 year)

- Collaboratively designed a feature that allows IT administrators to easily customize Duo’s main user-facing products. Customization lets enterprises match their company’s... more

SalesLoft

Product Designer 2018 (5 months)

- Designed UX/UI experience for part of the SalesLoft platform that connects to Gmail, Microsoft Outlook, and Salesforce while working in an Agile environment supporting two... more

Propel

UX & Business Intern 2017 (2 months)

- Led UX research and design process for a new feature in Fresh EBT mobile app to help users better budget their food stamps; resulted in a user-validated feature later implemented... more

Zendesk

Product Marketing Intern 2016 - 2017 (about 1 year)

- Researched a $6B telephony market, aiming to understand the target audience, competitive landscape messaging, positioning, and pricing, leading to the creation of a go-to-market... more

Cisco

Lead Product Designer

Ford Motor

Product Designer 2018 - 2019 (about 1 year)

- Designed UX/UI experience from scratch for RoadCode, a product that helps traffic safety engineers visualize crash data, connected vehicle data, and cell phone data in one... more

Employee

Ford Motor, Cisco, Zendesk, Propel, SalesLoft, Duo Security

Education

About

Achievements

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- 3 years of Product Design across a variety of industries (SaaS platform in Sales, Automotive, Fintech, and Cybersecurity)

- Proficient in and lover of the end-to-end design process. Can do everything form UX research to the final, polished UI designs.

- Entrepreneurial, multidisciplinary designer - I am a designer first and foremost but have a business background (MBA from Univ. of Michigan) and understand weaving design into business goals. I work best in diverse, collaborative product teams (alongside PM + Eng).

- Learn more about my approach to UX on my podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/were-jabbin-on-ux-research-and-design/id1533793672

Describe the most impressive thing you've done.

Skills

Product Marketing User Experience Design UI/UX Design Rapid Prototyping InVision Prototyping Usability Testing Heuristic Usability Evaluations Wireframing Wireframes and prototyping Affinity Diagrams Contextual Inquiry Lean UX Interaction Design Human Computer Interaction Agile UX Design UI Design CSS HTML Sketch Figma Research Planning

Locations

New York City Cambridge Brooklyn

Q&A

What's the most useful business-related book you've ever read?

Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely

What's your favorite non-business book?

The Master Plan by Chris Wilson

If money were not an issue, what would you be doing right now?

Still working as a Product Designer!

What words of advice would you give your younger self?

Keep experimenting and being open to things. Once you find that, go as deep as you can.

Kenji Kaneko

Product Designer formerly at Duo Security (now part of Cisco). Previously Ford, SalesLoft, Zendesk, Yelp. MBA/HCI from the University of Michigan.