Machaya Kurozumi

UX Interaction Design

Machaya is originally from Thailand and moved to Melbourne in 2016. She graduated with a Diploma of Fashion Merchandising in 2017 before shifting to study Bachelor of Design at Swinburne. While studying diploma course, digital design has been her favourite subject, and she would love to become a digital art designer. Finally, she is undertaking in UX and UI Design major with a Communication Design minor.

Machaya is a graphic designer and UX UI designer with a fashion design and textile background. Her passions are digital design, user interface design, branding, print and interactive publication. As she studied in UX UI major, she promoted her works toward more usability rather than focusing only on aesthetics. She is experienced at using Adobe XD, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop and Adobe rush. She is sufficient at using Figma, Axure and She is interested in learning Adobe After Effect, Max 8 and Unity. She loves to experiment with visual design elements, especially with colour use and typography on her designs. She is interested in how colours connect with people's emotions, convey a different meaning to individual experience and expand the use of typography integrated into the design to express and strengthen the value and identity of the product/brand.

Machaya is a friendly, easy-going, responsible, brave and reliable person. She loves to travel to get some inspiration for her design and loves to explore places to chill out in Melbourne. Also, she likes to visit art exhibitions, galleries, museums and play games in her leisure time. She wants to soon grow up in the design industry as a professional, find out more about her unique style, and look forward to working with and learning from experienced people.

Monothematic publication

Geolocation web app - Garden warrior

20th Century Type - Cooper black brochure

Royal Botanic Garden annual report

Typography for Print and Interactive Publication - Bike Guide

Acknowledgement of Country

The School of Design and Architecture respectfully acknowledges the Wurundjeri peoples of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Owners and knowledge-keepers of the lands, waters and sky that surround us, where we work, learn, create, communicate and make place. We recognise that sovereignty has never been ceded and this always was and will always be Wurundjeri Country. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who continue to make a better world through design.

We extend our acknowledgement to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff, students, alumni, real-life clients, and knowledge keepers, who have contributed to our own education diversity and growth. We will continue to ensure that staff and students respectfully honour ancestral connection to Country and Place in everything that they do.

We are dedicated to the notion of design to make a better world and we acknowledge that making tools, shaping place, sharing stories, making meaning, wayfinding and collaborating have long been and continue to be both central and integral to First Peoples' cultures. We recognize that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ cultural contributions have continued relevance to design practice and commit to: reconciling ancestries of design and contemporary practice as well as pursuing culturally and professionally appropriate ways to engage with a diverse population of colleagues, industries and clients. In a time of treaty-making and voice we understand that there are overlaps between caring for Country and the sustainable production of goods, services, experiences, products and buildings.

Guided by the principles of respect, reconciliation, and reciprocity we undertake to indigenising and decolonising design practice by dismantling colonial structures and challenging biases that have marginalised Indigenous voices and design.

As students of SoDA you will be given opportunities to both engage with and educate yourself in Indigenous creative practices and cultural protocols through a lens of inclusivity, diversity, respect, mutual understanding, inter-cultural dialogue in all aspects of design practice. Indigenous people have been telling stories, making tools, and connecting to Country through visual media, placemaking and place marking for more than 60,000 years and these practices are part of an ongoing, evolving and live tradition.