Paul Hanaoka
Partner at HOST STUDIOS
Bellingham, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Hanaoka is a product designer and design leader with a decade of experience turning complex platform needs into intuitive, scalable digital products. He has led and grown design organizations at Liferay—building design ops, research capabilities, and a profitable design systems practice—while also generating consulting revenue across APAC and NA. Now partnering at HOST STUDIOS and designing at early-stage Copilot CRM and his own studio, he blends hands-on interaction and visual design with engineering fluency to move teams from idea to shipped product quickly. Comfortable with both native and web apps, he’s known for making pragmatic decisions that keep teams focused on the right problems and measurable outcomes. Based in Bellingham, WA, he brings a product-first mindset plus operational chops (hiring, budgets, KPIs) that help design function as a strategic business driver. A maker at heart, he also maintains hanaoka.co as a personal touchpoint for his work.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Art / Business, Bachelor of Arts, Art / Business at Dordt University
French, Spanish
Github Skills (56)
react-components10
static-site-generator10
liferay10
designer10
mason10
fastest10
compiler10
graphql10
frontend10
user-experience10
adobe-xd10
react10
gatsby10
lexicon10
algolia7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
liferay-design/liferay.design
Dec 2017 - Oct 2022
This is repository for the artists formerly known as
Contributions:3 releases, 70 reviews, 1734 commits in 4 years 11 months
gatsbyartistsliferayuser-experiencedesign
liferay-design/blueprints
May 2018 - Jun 2019
A Site for Liferay's Brand Guidelines
Contributions:16 commits, 6 PRs, 38 pushes in 1 year
liferaydesignergardenbrandadobe-xd
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