Edward Addison

UX Interaction Design

My name is Edward Addison - and I'm a User Experience (UX) and Motion Designer. I aim to create unique digital experiences that excite, stimulate, and innovate. I have experience in 3D and 2D software, as well as software for digital prototyping: including Figma, Axure RP, and Adobe XD. I have extensively used many pieces of software from the Adobe suite, including Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere Pro, and Illustrator.

When creating a digital experience, be it a UX prototype or motion design animation, I aim to consider the effect on the end user. What purpose does the prototype serve? What emotion is the animation intended to stir? This empathetic approach leads to unique, user-(and audience)-centric solutions.

My knowledge in both UX and Motion Design is a unique strength, as there is a surprising amount of overlap between these two fields.

Polished animations can bring out the best in a high-fidelity UX prototype. Conversely, understanding the perspective and emotions behind a user’s decisions can aid in the creation of high-quality and meaningful motion design animations.

The crossover of these two fields can best be viewed in my UX project, Ghost Guide Victoria, which can be viewed on my portfolio.

I have thoroughly enjoyed developing my skills throughout my tenure as a student at Swinburne. Now I’m looking forward to seeking the next stage of my professional career elsewhere. I’m extremely excited to see where I can take my skills in the next few years – no matter which field.

Ghost Guide Victoria: App Prototype

A fully interactive prototype for a geolocated ghost tour app. Users progress through chapters of a ghost tour, learning about the history of where it takes place, collecting artefacts, and getting spooked along the way.

The Biosphere – Interactive Museum Exhibit

The Biosphere is a fully-fledged museum exhibition for the Melbourne Museum. Participants interact with the full-scale touch screens and learn about invasive species and the role they play throughout 3 distinctively Australian environments (rainforest, desert, and coral reef.)

In-Toorak-tive Garden: Digital Placemaking

A proposal for a digital placemaking installation in Toorak Village. Passers-by are entranced by the motion tracking dance experience, and can then adopt a real plant and customise a virtual plant pot for their botanical buddy.

TV Exquisite Corpse Render

A looping render made in Cinema 4D. All models and textures made by me. I wanted to experiment with vastly different rendering and animation styles in this video - so I tried a more painterly texturing and rendering style (instead of realistic), with some rubbery and expressive animation.

Loop de Loop: 3D Render

A looping render made using Cinema 4D. All models were made by me.
The stickman was created using Adobe Illustrator and After Effects.
This render was a great first foray into 3D animation and all the skills that come with it - 3D animation, modeling, lighting, materials, etc.

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.