Tokyo’s Open Network Lab Partners With AQ To Improve UX For Start-ups

Today Tokyo’s tech startup incubator Open Network Lab unveiled that it has partnered with AQ, a Tokyo-based multilingual website design consultancy, to help local tech startups improve user experience quality of their digital works.  The consultancy’s co-founder and UX expert Chris Palmieri will join Onlab’s roster of mentors. AQ and Open Network Lab will hold public workshops to teach how the design processes can be integrated into the rapid development cycles of web startups.

During the last year, Open Network Lab has been dedicated to providing startups with opportunities to learn how UI and UX should be thought out. This is, of course, critical when they are developing their own web services and smartphone apps. Back in August the incubator had a special lecture session with Janice Fraser, a co-founder of SF-based digital design consultancy Adaptive Path.

AQ was founded in 2008 by three key UX and UI experts and has designed websites and apps for well-known startups and projects such as MyGengo (social translation platform), Mozilla Japan, and Tokyo Art Beat (a bilingual portal site of  art and design-related events in Tokyo).

For more information on AQ and what it is doing to help startups with design, see our interview from a few months back with Chris Palmieri about their AQ Lift program.