Careful engineering
Honest work, down to the parts no one sees —
so it stays dependable for a long time.
Travel, living, and what turns up along the way
Turning what I notice into something.
A one-person studio making apps, websites and small projects out of what stops me on a trip, and what snags in ordinary days. An app is never the starting point. I walk, look, write it down, sit with the question I find there, and then work out what form it needs. An app is one of those forms.
- Based in
- Kyoto / Tokyo
- Apps released
- 2
- Journal entries
- 2
What I’m thinking about now
Start with the problem, then choose the form
Tomokichi Studio starts with problems and small frictions in everyday life, then chooses the simplest form that solves them well.
Recent notes
What came out of it
Available now
Currently making
What I keep in mind
No complexity passed on
The difficulty of technology and settings
is never handed to the people who use it.
The right density
Less isn’t automatically better; each product gets
the amount of features and information it needs.
A little playfulness
Never the main act, but a small moment of delight
is left somewhere to be found.
The person making these
Under the name Tomokichi, I write down what I notice in daily life and shape it into apps, websites and small projects. Travel, cities, living, the people around me. Each one starts from something I went through myself, and takes whatever form that question needs.
About me