MA:UX BLOG

Micro UX


Explored sensory and embodied interaction through collaboration with an external organisation. It deepened understanding of emotion, perception, and multisensory experience in UX design.


Brainscape
Design a way to make brain activity responding to aesthetic experiences visible, tangible, or interactive.
Investigated how brain responses to beauty could be made tangible. The project visualised neuroaesthetic experiences through low-tech, sensory interactions beyond the laboratory.


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Week 1
Approaching Aesthetics Through the Senses
01 MAY 2025




Week 2
Inner Signals with Low-Tech Translation
08 MAY 2025





Week 3
What Breath Might Look Like
15 MAY 2025





Week 4
Between Tools and Reactions
22 MAY 2025





Week 5
Breath as Tangible Aesthetics
29 MAY 2025





Week 6
Breath, Amplified
05 JUN 2025

Macro UX


Engaged with external partners to address complex, system-level design challenges. This unit expanded UX thinking towards strategic, social, and environmental impact.


Plant Points
Design a shopping loyalty system or rewards scheme run by local plants.
Reframed consumer behaviour through a posthumanist lens. The project proposed a plant-centred loyalty system that shifts human perspectives and encourages behavioural change towards ecological coexistence.


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Week 1
The State of Shopping Loyalty Today
13 FEB 2025




Week 2
Customers in Search of Pollen
20 FEB 2025





Week 3
A Plant-Based Shopping Experience, And?
27 FEB 2025





Week 4
Forms of Loyalty
06 MAR 2025





Week 5
Do You Believe in Plantism?
13 MAR 2025

Collaborative Unit


Focused on the dynamics of teamwork and co-creation within diverse groups. It developed communication, negotiation, and shared authorship across disciplines.


The Zone: Biodiversity
Design and build a LARP themed around future dead zones.
Explored how live-action roleplay can reimagine ecological futures. The project transformed collaboration and storytelling into a collective mission to restore biodiversity.


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Week 1
Understanding LARP
24 JAN 2025



Week 2
Welcome to BiodiverCity
31 JAN 2025

UX Studio Practice


Explored the foundations of user experience design through six fast-paced, conceptual projects. This unit encouraged experimentation and critical reflection, translating contemporary UX discourses into practice. Through iterative design, it established a strong foundation for understanding how context and process shape user experience.








UX of Human Senses Week 1
Watching and Being Watched
03 OCT 2024





UX of Dirt Week 1
Traces and Choices
10 OCT 2024





UX of Dirt Week 2
Traces on the Door
17 OCT 2024





UX of Pink Week 1
Pink Generation
24 OCT 2024





UX of Pink Week 2
Memories in Colour
31 OCT 2024





UX of Warmth Week 1
Experience of Temperature
07 NOV 2024





UX of Warmth Week 2
Mayor, the City is Drowning!
14 NOV 2024





UX of Goodbye Week 1
Between Memory and Absence
21 NOV 2024





UX of Goodbye Week 2
Because I Can’t Let You Go
28 NOV 2024





UX of the Present Week 1
Where Are You, Now?
05 DEC 2024





UX of the Present Week 2
Distraction to the Present
12 DEC 2024