Kon’nichiwa!
I’m Lau.

When we needed additional support on our Design Team at Rivian Lau came in as an agency resource. Very quickly Lau got up to speed on rather complex tasks and was able to contribute wonderful design work almost immediately.

Through a multi-tiered design methodology, presenting ideas through initial sketches, progressing to low-fidelity and then high-fidelity wireframes using Figma Lau very quickly became a model of what I like to see in my team members. Additionally, he shared his work with others accepting critical feedback and returning soon thereafter with improved designs. Additionally, he shared his knowledge, experience and insights with other members of my team.

Lau is a very generous designer. He's who you want working in collaborative environments. In his work Lau achieved substantial cost savings and impressive ROI, standing out in our organization amidst challenging times. All of these great attributes would be for naught if he weren't also reliable ... and you can always count on Lau to under promise and over deliver.

Additionally, Lau is an outstanding storyteller, communicating his goals intentions and results with aplomb. His professionalism and ability to engage with clients confidently make him a standout candidate for any future engagements.

My best compliment is ... I would be excited to work with Lau again.

Lau was an invaluable asset to our team during the development of our internal platform. His comprehensive approach involved conducting thorough research interviews with both internal and external stakeholders, ensuring our product design was aligned with our strategic goals. With a keen focus on product intent, Lau contributed a multi-tiered design methodology, presenting ideas through initial sketches, progressing to low-fidelity and then high-fidelity wireframes using Figma. His contributions were instrumental in enhancing our operational efficiency and culminated in the creation of an aesthetically pleasing and functional product. Our collaborative efforts involved considerable iteration, with Lau consistently demonstrating receptiveness to feedback, which refined both the design and product workflow. His professionalism and ability to engage with key clients confidently make him a standout candidate for any future engagements.

I had the privilege of working with Lau during this period of significant industry turbulence. As our peer, Lau played a pivotal role, achieving substantial cost savings and impressive ROI, standing out our division amidst these challenging times.

I highly endorse him as one of the most talented and experienced UX Designers I've ever met. It has been an honor and a rewarding experience of true collaboration and learning alongside him.

Working with Lau was a fantastic experience. I found him a professional with great experience and profound knowledge of design and technical implementations. He is a creative UX designer and has great relations with company clients and software engineering teams. He is reliable, forward-thinking, and an inspiring team player.

Lau effectively helped me to decide and switch careers. With his Mentorship I was able to start the UI/UX journey and substantially change my professional life.

Lau is an exceptionally outstanding professional, having demonstrated not only a mastery of soft skills but also above-average technical expertise. Throughout our time working together, he was always willing to contribute to the team members, delivering work with excellence. I do not hesitate to recommend Lau as one of the best UX professionals I have had the opportunity to work with!

Lau is the king of the pixel and the alignment. It’s amazing his capacity to keep track of the design process with such beautiful and careful documentation (wireframes, business canvas, user persona, etc.). We worked together for 9 weeks in a UX/UI intensive Bootcamp in Ironhack and I learned a lot from him. He is a great teammate, full of patient, a good listener and with the best advice.

Lau was an incredible teacher who encouraged the class, always bringing cutting-edge content and teachings. I was lucky to keep in touch and follow his professional development in other areas, always being a reference in the sector.

I had the opportunity of working with Lau in 2 different projects along the UX/UI Bootcamp at Ironhack Barcelona, being next to him has been an amazing learning experience.
Lau is so focus, determinant, and enthusiastic, that working with him was challenging and exciting all along.
Lau is a good listener, and as a good professor that he is, he’s great at explaining and sharing ideas, which makes him a good team player.

Lau is an outstanding Storyteller, UX and Visual Designer. His ability to turn complex issues into smart and beautiful designs is pure incredible. He’s a teamplayer who always thinks efficiency first and is always the good spirit when things get rough during the design process. I hope to work soon with him on future projects!

Lau is an artist. Although we never worked directly together on a project, we spent many weekends studying or ux-ing at Ironhack. I learnt so much from him about visual design, especially about alignment and proximity. He has helped me drastically improve in my visual design skills. He brought so much experience and a great attention to detail, to our UX/UI class.

The first time I met Lau was unforgettable. I was studying Business and Architecture at the same time at two different faculties, kind of lost, not knowing what to do. I went to a workshop of a "Design Thinking" that I had never heard of. I was amazed. And since then the name Yamazaki has not left my head. Lau was also present in two other turning points in my life: he accepted to be part of the board, as a guest professor, of my Postgraduate TCC at UFBA (the topic was about Design Thinking lol). And the other moment is now: living abroad, lost again, I sought him out to learn more, learn about UX. Lau is my mentor. Whenever I want to take a turn, a change, refresh my studies, it's he I remember.