Thi Thanh Mai Nguyen

I’m a UX Interaction Design student passionate about shaping user flow across digital and physical spaces. My interest began with exhibition design, where I learned to guide users through purposeful, story-driven environments. I enjoy exploring ideas and organizing them into clear, intuitive journeys. Familiar with communication and motion design tools, I focus on creating experiences that balance structure, usability, and emotional impact, always with the user’s perspective at the core.

Starry Melbs

Starry Melbs is a poetic, location-based mobile game that transforms Melbourne into a living canvas inspired by Van Gogh’s life.

Kineme

Kineme is a movie-sharing platform where fans discover, review, and share films with deeper insights and community-driven recommendations.

DUCKYS

DUCKYS is a safety bathroom system that supports safe, intuitive bathroom routines for older adults. It combines sensor surfaces, a ducky companion, and a tablet application for remote control and customize.

Cure the Plague

Cure the Plague is an immersive exhibition tracing the origins of the plague and exploring how different eras responded to its devastating and deathly impact.

Bầu Cua Đông Hồ

Bầu Cua Đông Hồ is a vibrant reimagining of the traditional Bầu Cua board game. This packaging design blends the timeless charm of Đông Hồ Vietnamese folk art with a bold, modern color palette.

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.