Founder By Design

Founder By Design

Sobre el evento

Most design events are about craft.
This one is about the decision to build.
Founder by Design is an evening for designers who are done waiting for the right moment. The ones who left corporate, or are thinking about it. The ones running their own thing and figuring it out as they go.
We'll talk about why this moment is the right time to build a design-led business. We'll share origin stories, the triggers that made us leave, and what the transition actually looked like. We'll get into the real challenges: identity shift, pricing, saying no, building systems while you're still serving clients. And we'll look forward at what a thriving design business looks like in the next era.
Details

This is a curated evening. Space is limited.

Topics we'll cover
Why now is the right time to build a design-led business
Origin stories: the triggers, the leap, the first 90 days
The identity shift from designer to founder
Pricing, boundaries, and saying no
Building systems while you're still in delivery mode
What a thriving design business looks like in the next era

Speakers

Corey Lee is a fractional design leader and founder based in Tokyo, with 15 years of experience designing products and building design organizations. Formerly a Designer Advocate at Figma, he now works in two directions: partnering with companies as a fractional leader through strategy and design leadership, and mentoring designers founders through The Designer MBA.

James Hsu has 18 years in design. Most recently, he was a design executive at Crunchyroll. Before that, he worked at FabFitFun, Disney, and Live Nation. In every one of those rooms, he watched the same thing happen. The smartest designer kept losing to people with worse ideas and better politics. Sometimes that was someone he managed. Sometimes it was him. Nobody teaches the layer above craft. Business, influence, selling yourself, and being visible so that you can actually thrive in corporate, not just survive. He founded Dark UX Academy to help design leaders fix that.

Bethany Nakamura is a Japan-based creative director and strategist specializing in branding, storytelling, and digital marketing for globally minded clients. After more than a decade designing for Fortune 500 companies, universities, healthcare systems, and public projects at major architecture firms, she left corporate practice to pursue more values-aligned creative work. After reaching millions through independent creative content, she founded Bitsii Creative to bring that same audience-first sensibility to client brands.

Ryo Sampei is a producer and design leader in Tokyo, with two decades in the web and app industry across marketing, design, and business development.
In 2022 he founded Spectrum Tokyo, a design community built on the theme of "design diversity," and later incorporated it as Spectrum Tokyo Inc.—an experience design studio that runs design conferences, produces events for companies, and organizes design retreats. He also leads Design Matters Tokyo, the Japanese edition of the Denmark-born conference, and previously founded UX MILK, Japan's largest UX design community.

Sponsored by Dark UX Academy × The Designer MBA

デザむンのむベントずいえば、たいおいスキルや制䜜の話。 このむベントは違いたす。テヌマは「ビゞネスを䜜る決断」。
Founder by Design は、「い぀か始めよう」ず埅぀のをやめたデザむナヌのための倜です。䌚瀟を蟞めた人、蟞めるこずを考えおいる人、すでに自分でやり始めお、手探りで進んでいる人。そんな人たちが集たる堎所です。
なぜ今がデザむン起業のタむミングなのか。独立のきっかけは䜕だったのか。転換期は実際どうだったのか。䟡栌蚭定、断るこず、クラむアントを抱えながら仕組みを䜜るこず。さらに、これからのデザむンビゞネスの姿に぀いおも、率盎に話し合いたす。

開催詳现

少人数制のむベントです。定員になり次第、受付を締め切りたす。

話すこず
なぜ今がデザむン起業に最適なタむミングなのか
独立のきっかけ、決断の瞬間、最初の90日
「デザむナヌ」から「経営者」ぞのマむンドシフト
䟡栌蚭定、境界線を匕くこず、断るこず
案件をこなしながら仕組みを䜜るずいうこず
これからのデザむンビゞネスはどこぞ向かうのか

スピヌカヌ

Corey Leeは東京を拠点ずするデザむン経営支揎リヌダヌ兌ファりンダヌ。プロダクトデザむンずデザむン組織の構築に15幎のキャリアを持぀。元FigmaのDesigner Advocateずしお掻躍した埌、デザむン経営支揎を通しお䌁業ず協働しおいる。たたThe Designer MBAを通じおデザむンファりンダヌぞのメンタリングを提䟛しおいる。

James Hsu — Founder, Dark UX Academy デザむナヌずしお18幎のキャリアを持぀。Crunchyrollでデザむン圹員を務め、以前はDisney、Live Nation、FabFitFunに圚籍。どの職堎でも同じ光景を目にしおきた——優秀なデザむナヌが、アむデアは劣るのに立ち回りのうたい人に負け続ける。ビゞネス、圱響力、自己発信、存圚感の䜜り方。誰もそれを教えおくれない。だからDark UX Academyを䜜った。

Bethany Nakamura — Founder, Bitsii Creative ブランディング、ストヌリヌテリング、デゞタルマヌケティングを専門ずするクリ゚むティブディレクタヌ兌ストラテゞスト。Fortune 500䌁業、倧孊、医療機関、倧手建築事務所でのプロゞェクトなど、10幎以䞊にわたっおデザむンに携わった埌、よりコアな䟡倀芳に沿った仕事をするために独立。自ら発信したコンテンツで数癟䞇人にリヌチした経隓を掻かし、Bitsii Creativeを蚭立。クラむアントのブランドに「オヌディ゚ンスファヌスト」の芖点をもたらしおいる。

Ryo Sampeiは東京を拠点ずするプロデュヌサヌ兌デザむンリヌダヌ。マヌケティング・デザむン・事業開発にわたり、りェブ・アプリ業界で20幎のキャリアを持぀。
2022幎に「デザむンの倚様性」をテヌマにしたデザむンコミュニティ、Spectrum Tokyoを蚭立。その埌、法人化しスペクトラムトヌキョヌ株匏䌚瀟ずしお、デザむンカンファレンスの開催・䌁業向けむベントのプロデュヌス・デザむンリトリヌトの運営を行う゚クスペリ゚ンスデザむンスタゞオずしお掻動しおいる。たた、デンマヌク発のカンファレンス日本版であるDesign Matters Tokyoを䞻宰するほか、日本最倧のUXデザむンコミュニティ「UX MILK」の創蚭者でもある。

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Ubicación

5-chōme-10-14 Shinjuku

Cómo llegar

Esta semana en Tokyo