Koji Ishimoto
About
UI Developer
Koji Ishimoto was born and grew up in Japan.
He is originally from web designer, majored in living style design at University of Shiga Prefecture. He is also passionate about programming. In his career, he was responsible for coding HTML/CSS/JavaScript, and education to new employees.
He writes about web performance and mobile web in his blog, MOL - Designing for a Mobile World!.
- Social accounts: GitHub / Dribbble / LinkedIn / Speaker Deck / SlideShare
Education
- B.A., Product Design, University of Shiga Prefecture, 2007.
Work Experience
2018 - Present, Japan Digital Design, Inc
Japan Digital Design drive change through financial innovation.
UI Developer
2016 - 2017, Mercari, Inc.
Mercari provides a hassle-free and secure way to buy and sell items straight from your mobile device or tablet.
Front-end Developer
2015 - 2016, Kaizen Platform, Inc.
Kaizen Platform is a full-service digital customer experience optimization platform. Kaizen scalably optimizes the entire customer journey with data-driven creativity.
Front-end Developer
- Developed Kaizen Dashboard application built with AngularJS.
- Designed interaction desgin guideline in Kaizen Dashboard.
2012 - 2014, CyberAgent, Inc.
CyberAgent manages Ameblo which is one of the top sites in Japan.
Web Developer
- Managed the biggest front-end developer community in Japan.
- Led a front-end web performance team to improve speed of all social game applications in the company.
- Developed a bulletin board system service for ladies.
2007 - 2012, DMM.com Labo Co.,Ltd.
DMM.com is one of the top E-commerce sites in Japan.
Web Designer, Web Analyst
- Led an analyst team to implement Google Analytics and Adobe Analytics.
- Introduced Semantic HTML(Microformats).
- Improved main template view and top page view file with HTML5.
- Created HTML/CSS cording guidelines for web designer in the company.
Communities
JS Girls
2014 - 2015, founder
A developer community for ladies who learn JavaScript.
Frontrend
2012 - 2014, Organizer
The Frontrend meetup is about everything frontend technology.
kanazawa.js
2010 - 2012, Organizer
A community for developers who learn JavaScript in Kanazawa.
Publications
- 2015/12/23, WEB+DB PRESS Vol.90 特集 実践マテリアルデザイン
- 2015/08/11, WEB+DB PRESS総集編[Vol.1~84]
- 2014/07/02, フロントエンドエンジニア養成読本
- 2014/03/18, Sass&Compass徹底入門(監修)
- 2013/10/24, WEB+DB PRESS Vol.77 特集 実践Sass/Compass
- 2012/08/27, すべての人に知っておいてほしい スマートフォンサイトデザインの基本原則
- 2011/09/26, iPhone & Android スマートフォンサイト制作の教科書
Personal Projects
- 2015/01/28, Wisteria.css A class selectors based harmless CSS library.
- 2015/01/14, Frontend Weekly A weekly e-mail roundup of frontend articles.
- 2014/12/10, Sketch Plugin for generating Google Material Design color palette.
- 2014/06/14, StyleStats A web application to collect CSS statistics.
- 2013/04/25, Maple A better front-end boilerplate project.
npm
Chrome Extensions
- 2013/02/05, gFaceee (Developer Tools)
- 2012/03/30, Listy for DMM.com (Social & Communication)
- 2012/03/22, jsoff (Developer Tools)
Talks
2016
- Introduction to microinteraction, 20mins
07/04, Yahoo!Japan internal study meeting, 200seats, Yahoo!Japan Head Office in Tokyo
2015
- Evaluating your stylesheets, 5mins
11/20, JSConf.Asia 2015, 300seats, Red Dot Design Museum in Singapore - JavaScript/CSS 2015 Autumn, 20mins
10/14, IWATE HTML5 COMMUNITY #3, 50seats, Takizawa Innovation Center in Iwate - Evaluating your stylesheets, 5mins
8/22, YAPC::Asia 2015, 1000seats, Tokyo Big Sight in Tokyo - Evaluating CSS, 40mins
02/21, Frontrend Final Conference, 500seats, CyberAgent, Inc. Head Office in Tokyo
2014
- A story of CSS engineer, Koji Ishimoto, 30mins
11/18, A Publish Event for CSS Architecture for Web Developer, 70seats, FirstServer Head Office in Osaka - How to be a front-end engineer, 45mins
02/13, Developers Summit 2014, 2500seats, MEGURO GAJOEN in Tokyo - Efficient UI Development, 45mins
01/25, Frontrend in Fukuoka, 150seats, Ruby Contents Industrial Suppor Center in Fukuoka
2013
- Moden Web Development Workflow with Grunt, 45mins
11/30, HTML5 Conference 2013, 2000seats, NTT Leraning Center in Tokyo - WebPagetest 5 minutes, 5mins
10/30, Frontrend x Chrome Tech Talk Night Extended, 450seats, CyberAgent, Inc. Head Office in Tokyo - Introduction to Sass/Compass for Web Desinger, 40mins
09/27, schoo WEB-campus, Online Lesson in Tokyo - Introduction to Sass Compass for Sencha Touch User, 40mins
03/15, SenchaUG Meetup Vol.6, 30seats, Kanto IT Software Kenpo Kaikan in Tokyo - var Gurator = Gist + Curator;, 5mins
02/03, Qiita 2-day Hackathon, 80seats, Digital Garage, Inc. in Tokyo - Sublime Text and Grunt for Titanium Development, 10mins
01/25, Titanium Meetup Tokyo #5, 70seats, CyberAgent, Inc. Head Office in Tokyo - Management of Sass/Compass with web peformance mind, 50mins
01/12, CSS Nite LP, Disk 26, 240seats, Bellesalle HANZOUMON in Tokyo
2012
- Management of Sass/Compass with web peformance mind, 50mins
12/15, SaCSS vol.40, 60seats, Sapporo Citizens Hall in Sapporo - 3 secrets of optimizing your mobile app, 30mins
11/17, Tap App Awards Smartphone UI Meetup, 150seats, CyberAgent, Inc. Head Office in Tokyo - Mobile Front-end Optimization, 45mins
11/10, Webridge Meeting SP12 featuring Frontrend, 60seats, Kagawa Information Service Center in Kagawa - Mobile Front-end Optimization Standard:2012, 40mins
10/21, Frontrend Vol.3 powered by CyberAgent, 120seats, CyberAgent, Inc.Head Office in Tokyo - Make the Web Faster! - Chrome DevTools for improving Web Performance -, 50mins
08/24, In‐house Meetup, 60seats, CyberAgent, Inc. Head Office in Tokyo - Measuring Web Performance, 45mins
06/30, CSS Nite LP, Disk 23, 240seats, Bellesalle KUDAN in Tokyo
2011
- tissa for iOS, 3mins
10/27, Titanium Meetup Tokyo #14, DNP Gotanda in Tokyo - Implementing Google Aanalytics to a bigger site and report, 30mins
10/22, CSS Nite LP, Disk 19 reprise, Bellesalle YAESU in Tokyo - Implementing Google Aanalytics to a bigger site and report, 30mins
10/15, CSS Nite LP, Disk 19, Bellesalle JINBOCHO in Tokyo - Introduction to Titanium Mobile, 45mins
09/25, kanazawa.js v1.6, Shinoki Cultural Complex in Ishikawa - The paid iPhone app I made, 30mins
09/17, Ti.Developers.meeting Vol.0.3, Hatena Head Office in Kyoto - Mobile First - How shoud Web Designer do, 15mins
06/04, UPGRADE JAPAN!!, Fukui Industrial Support Center in Fukui - Using Google Analytics with jQuery Mobile, 15mins
06/28, _gaTracker 1st Meeting in Tokyo - The iPhone App a web designer made, 15mins
06/18, Nagoya Android Meetup Vol.2 Titanium Mobile Hands-on, Aichi Institute of Technology in Nagoya - Communities of Practice – Histroy of kanazawa.js, 30mins
04/16, kanazawa.js v1.2, IT Business Plaza Musashi in Ishikawa - The iPhone App a web designer made, 15mins
04/08, WCAF Seminar Vol.6, Fukui Industrial Support Center in Fukui - The iPhone App a web designer made, 15mins
04/03, Untitled!!!!!!!!, Osaka Urban Industry Promotion Center in Osaka
2010
- Long Life Web Performance Optimization, 40mins
10/16, WCAF Seminar Vol.4, Fukui Industrial Support Center in Fukui - Long Life Web Performance Optimization, 40mins
09/25, dotcoder session4, Osaka Kensyu Center in Osaka - Coding Web Performance, 35mins
04/17, CSS Nite LP, Disk 9「Coder's Higher」, Bellesalle KANDA in Tokyo
2009
- High Performance Web Design, 40mins
10/24, CSS Nite in ISHIKAWA, Vol.1, Ishikawa Indust Promotion Center in Ishikawa - Learning Microformats from Web Slice, 10mins
07/18, Windows7 Community Meetup with Tech Fielders, Hotel Kanazawa in Ishikawa