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