Moving from a production company to a business company, pursuing user-centric design -- Interview with Suzuki Shinji jus
Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2025 6:37 am
On Friday, February 25th, Mynavi Creator will be holding the online seminar Web Industry Evolution Practical Course #15, "User-centric approach and perspective - essential for UI/UX designers at business companies."
Event information for 2/25 (Fri)
For details on the Web Industry Evolution Practical Course #15 "User-centric and Perspectives Essential for UI/UX Designers of Business Companies," click here
Click here for the application form
The 15th installment of the "Web Industry Evolution Practical Course" is aimed at web designers and UI/UX designers who are thinking about their future careers. Suzuki Shinji, a UI/UX designer at Money Forward, will be the guest and will talk about the talent that is active in business companies and the "user perspective" that is required.
In this interview just before the event, we spoke to Suzuki about his career, which saw him move from a production company to a business company, and the ideas he values as a UI/UX designer.
Profile Introduction
Shinji Suzuki, UI/UX Designer,
Money Forward, Inc.
Born in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture. After graduating from a vocational school, he worked as an art director and senior designer at two design production companies for seven years. He was responsible for a wide belgium phone number data range of projects, from print media such as transportation advertisements and magazine advertisements to large and small websites. In 2019, he joined Money Forward, Inc. and began his career as a UI/UX designer. He is mainly responsible for the overall design of iOS/Android applications. He is involved in service development in a variety of areas, from interface design to experience design, information design, and user testing. He also contributes to the marketing and branding fields by utilizing the skills he has acquired in his career.
Career change from paper media to the web, from a production company to a business company
- First of all, please tell us about your career history.
Suzuki: After studying graphics at a vocational school, I joined an advertising production company as a designer. I was involved in all kinds of graphic design, mainly paper media, such as transportation ads, newspaper ads, and package design, so I was pretty much a jack-of-all-trades.
At first, I was planning to continue to make a living as a graphic designer. However, the cost of print advertising has been falling year by year, and Adobe products such as Illustrator have become more widely used. I began to wonder if I could maintain my market value if I continued like this, so I accepted an invitation from a senior colleague who had moved to a w
Event information for 2/25 (Fri)
For details on the Web Industry Evolution Practical Course #15 "User-centric and Perspectives Essential for UI/UX Designers of Business Companies," click here
Click here for the application form
The 15th installment of the "Web Industry Evolution Practical Course" is aimed at web designers and UI/UX designers who are thinking about their future careers. Suzuki Shinji, a UI/UX designer at Money Forward, will be the guest and will talk about the talent that is active in business companies and the "user perspective" that is required.
In this interview just before the event, we spoke to Suzuki about his career, which saw him move from a production company to a business company, and the ideas he values as a UI/UX designer.
Profile Introduction
Shinji Suzuki, UI/UX Designer,
Money Forward, Inc.
Born in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture. After graduating from a vocational school, he worked as an art director and senior designer at two design production companies for seven years. He was responsible for a wide belgium phone number data range of projects, from print media such as transportation advertisements and magazine advertisements to large and small websites. In 2019, he joined Money Forward, Inc. and began his career as a UI/UX designer. He is mainly responsible for the overall design of iOS/Android applications. He is involved in service development in a variety of areas, from interface design to experience design, information design, and user testing. He also contributes to the marketing and branding fields by utilizing the skills he has acquired in his career.
Career change from paper media to the web, from a production company to a business company
- First of all, please tell us about your career history.
Suzuki: After studying graphics at a vocational school, I joined an advertising production company as a designer. I was involved in all kinds of graphic design, mainly paper media, such as transportation ads, newspaper ads, and package design, so I was pretty much a jack-of-all-trades.
At first, I was planning to continue to make a living as a graphic designer. However, the cost of print advertising has been falling year by year, and Adobe products such as Illustrator have become more widely used. I began to wonder if I could maintain my market value if I continued like this, so I accepted an invitation from a senior colleague who had moved to a w