Derek Sakamoto

Derek Sakamoto is Senior UI Designer on the Team 5 Hearthstone development team. He is featured in the credits card of the same name.

Career
In March 2015, Sakamoto had been at Blizzard for a little over 12 years. His first job for the company was designing the UI (user interface) for World of Warcraft. He worked on WoW for 6 years, from Vanilla through to .

Trivia

 * Sakamoto is responsible for suggesting the ruby eye bonus feature for the Naxxramas battlefield.


 * Sakamoto is behind #FlavorTextThatMissedTheCut, a series of Twitter messages sharing humorous unused flavor text for bosses from the Curse of Naxxramas adventure.

Card art
The card art for Sakamoto's credits card was created by.