Nobuyuki Hayashi

• Served as Visiting Professor since April 2019. Named Honorary Visiting Professor in September 2022.
• Conducted lectures and workshops on various design topics for undergraduate students

Evaluated the design quality, usability of audio/visual equipments and information appliance and provided constructive feedback to participants.

Provided guidance on the company's business strategy and product development.

Worked on several projects as a freelance consultant for major Japanese telecommunication companies and electronics manufacturers, providing strategical proposals and recommendations while also giving advice to Silicon Valley tech companies to help promote their products in Japan. While most accomplishments in consulting work remain under non-disclosure agreement, one visible example was the iPhone Release Event I co-hosted with Softbank CEO, Masayoshi Son.

• Journalist with over 32 years of experience covering the latest trends in the IT industry
• Currently, writing articles for ITmedia, Pen Online, ON BEAT, and BEYOND Magazine
• contributed articles to a wide range of Japanese newspapers and magazines, including Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun, Mainichi Shimbun, Asahi Shimbun, GQ Japan, Wired Japan, ELLE Magazine, ELLE DECOR, Casa Brutus, AXIS magazine, ON BEAT(a Bilingual Art Magazine), Monthly ASCII, Monthly MACPOWER, Monthly MacFan
• also written articles for English publications, such as WIRED and Billboard Magazine and Korean publication MacMadang.
• published more than a dozen books including "iPhone Shock" (2007. Translated into two other languages), "Why did the iPhone and Twitter succeed?"(2010), "Steve Jobs created everything without inventing them"(2012). And forwarded half dozen books including "Insanely Simple” (Ken Segall, 2013), "Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products " (2013, Leander Kahney et al.)
• selected as one of the 200 journalists invited to Apple's first-generation iPod launch event in 2001 and have been invited to Apple's new product launch events since then.
• the only journalist in Japan entrusted with interviewing Apple's design department.

Started as the judge for James Dyson Award — an International design competition. Later when James Dyson Foundation was formed in Japan, become one of the board members and served to the foundation's mission of promoting Design Engineering education in Japan (until the Japanese foundation was absorbed into UK foundation in 2022).