Mele Hamasaki is a designer and producer based between Honolulu and Los Angeles.

Her personal mission is exquisite equilibrium - the everyday remembering to cultivate and nourish our relationship to the natural world, the spiritual world, our communities, our families, and ourselves. She collaborates frequently as a producer and designer with the production company Ringshout Productions and Honolulu-based non-profit Puʻuhonua Society. She currently serves on the board of directors for the publishing non-profit Tropic Editions, is a Senior Principal Product Designer for Yahoo, and has co-curated the film program Huli of Consciousness at the Honolulu Museum of Art. Most recently, she produced the short films Don’t Tell Mama, dir. Chloe Kekovic and Memory as Missionary Position, dir. Brigitte Leilani Axelrode.

Design

Yahoo
April 2025 - Present
Senior Principal Product Designer

Coinbase
February 2024 - January 2025
Staff Product Designer, Design Systems

Puʻuhonua Society
Web Designer
September 2024 - Present

Umi
July - September 2024
Design Mentor

Coinbase
August 2022 - February 2024
Senior Product Designer, Design Systems

Farmlink Hawai’i
September - November 2023
Design Mentor

Coinbase
June 2021 - August 2022
Product Designer, Design Systems

TOQA
January 2020 - January 2022
Lead Digital Experience Designer

Workday
April 2020 - June 2021
Product Designer III (Design Systems)

Workday
September 2018 - April 2020
Product Designer II (Design Systems)

Workday
June 2017 - September 2017
Product Design Intern

Siegel+Gale
June 2016 - August 2016
UX Design Intern

Producing

Don’t Tell Mama, dir. Chloe Kekovic
Narrative Short. Coming Soon
Producer

Memory as Missionary Position, dir. Brigitte Leilani Axelrode
Experimental Short. Coming Soon
Producer

Tutuvi Tutuvi Tutuvi
Fashion Show. August 10, 2024
Producer

Huli, dir. Daniel Croix
Narrative Short. 2024
Associate Producer

Huli of Consciousness at the Honolulu Museum of Art
Film Screening. January 13, 2024
Producer

Education

Ka Maka ‘Īnana
Ethical Design in Hawaiian Context
March - May 2023

DePaul University, Chicago IL
Master of Science in Human Computer Interaction
September 2017 - June 2018

Bachelor of Science in User Experience Design & Graphic Design
September 2013 - June 2017

High School Diploma from ʻIolani School

Boards

Tropic Editions
June 2023 - Present
Board Member