Emily Arvidsson

UX Interaction Design

Emily Arvidsson is a Melbourne born UX/UI and graphic designer. She grew up loving the outdoors which is heavily reflected in her digital work.

As a recent graduate, she has found her passion for design through creating user-friendly and engaging digital products and services. Dabbling outside of the digital design realm, she finds her creativity comes alive through photo media and photography. Her skills in the field include the Adobe Suite, Axure RP, Figma and more.

Strider

A Geolocation based app that promotes walking with young people. This app acts like a treasure hunt, rewarding badges and keeping an album of memories. Prototyped for user testing and field testing, this app is the result of user research.

Nature Nest

6 Week Web-Marketing campaign based on Melbourne's Biodiversity. The aim is to educate Melbourne and greater Victoria about the natural flora and fauna surrounding them by posting 5 times a week on platforms such as Instagram, Facebook and X.

Altor

Altor is a security magnet device used for tool protection and management. Usually used by tradies, this app was developed to prototype a new app for the start up company. Through a collaborative effort and extensive user research, this app shows functions to arm and disarm your vehicle, track tool inventory and has opportunities for future development including fleet management.

Portraits

3 Images showing different light levels, Soft Light, Harsh Light and a Mix. Portraying music and fashion, these photographs all portray a different storyline.

Album Cover

3 of 9 album covers based on the sub-genres of rap music, Trap Music, Cloud Rap and Pop Rap. The development of these highlighted images followed different creative image making techniques such as sound waves, photographic paper and mixed mediums.

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.