PanPan Vongsrirungruang

UX Interaction Design

Hi, I’m PanPan—and no, I don’t have a brother named Peter! Originally from Thailand (hence the insanely long surname), I’ve been calling Melbourne home for the past few years. I’m about to finish my studies at Swinburne University of Technology, majoring in Design with a focus on UX Interaction Design and a minor in Digital Advertising. Throughout my studies, I have worked in the creative industry and have been exposed to a variety of areas, from user interface and experience design to brand identity, graphic design, illustration, and social media campaigns. I have even worked on a bit of SEO and web development, which I have enjoyed a lot. As a hungry young designer, I’m fuelled by curiosity, creativity, and, of course, food, and I’m always up for a chat about Melbourne’s best cheap eats and where to find the best matcha lattes.

Rekindle - A social media platform designed for preserving and sharing old printed images

Rekindle is designed for users in their 40s to 60s, offering a fun and engaging way to digitise, organise, and share old physical photos. The app addresses the need to revive cherished memories stored in printed images, providing a secure platform to bring them back to life online.

Key features include:
- Digitisation of old printed photos
- Interactive photo recognition challenges
- Shared albums and group chats
- Templated Collages

This project involved comprehensive UX research, including user testing, multiple iterations, and the development of detailed UI branding guidelines.

Scrummy - An app designed to revolutionise home cooking for beginners

The Scrummy app assists new home cooks in creating delicious, budget-friendly meals with ease. By offering personalised recipe suggestions based on available ingredients, Scrummy simplifies meal planning, reduces food waste, and organises pantry items, helping users make healthier choices at home while relying less on dining-out options. Developed through comprehensive UX research, including user testing, multiple design iterations, and detailed UI branding guidelines, Scrummy is a user-friendly tool designed to make home cooking accessible and enjoyable for beginners.

GrocerGuide - A gamified grocery store hunting application

As part of a university project, I designed GrocerGuide, a gamified app that encourages users to visit 10 culturally diverse grocery stores around Melbourne. With over 200 nationalities, 260 languages, and 135 religious faiths represented, Melbourne’s rich diversity plays a big role in shaping its unique culinary scene. GrocerGuide includes interactive maps to guide users to these stores, recipe challenges, and AR technology that lets users collect virtual ingredients for points. Users can earn rewards and claim discounts at the stores, helping to bring more foot traffic to local businesses while encouraging Melburnians to explore the city’s diverse cuisines. The app’s user experience and interface was refined through comprehensive user research, including interviews, prototype testing, and continuous feedback.

Redesigning Music Victoria's Website

As part of my UX Capstone project, I participated in a 12-week team effort to address the question: “How might we enhance the user journey and overall site navigation to create a more user-friendly experience that effectively markets memberships, simplifies the signup process, and eases navigation of membership benefits?”

Through user interviews and testing, we aimed to optimise Music Victoria's website for the best user flow while ensuring it effectively showcases all membership resources.

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.