Human Experience Designer
Affective Interaction Explorer
Speculative Art Attempter
Social Robotics Practitioner
Projects
About
What People Say
Jono Shaw is an Interaction Design practitioner, researcher and educator based in Sydney, Australia, whose works bring a multifaceted perspective to produce designs as exploratory as they are aesthetically and emotionally pleasing. His design practice encompasses interactive media art, human-centered experience design, speculative design, and affective interaction design, through which he breaks boundaries toward intriguing intersections between humanity and sensory environments.
Jono’s approach to design is characterized by challenging conventional thinking and self-imposed constraints, with the aspiration to designs that not just serve a function, but tell a story, stimulate reflections, break conservative prejudices, and look after minor intricacies of life. As a practice-based researcher, his interests center on the ways technology influences humanity, society and culture, and how social and cultural institutions adapt to these changes. His passion also extends to filmmaking, education, creative writing, minority rights, and multiculturalism.
Experience
Sessional Academic | May 2024 - Present
School of Art and Design, UNSW
Research Administrator | May 2024 - Present
Creative Technologies Research Lab (CTRL), UNSW
Research Assistant (Multimedia) | Feb 2024 - Present
NSW Brigalow Belt Project × Dr Tricia Flanagan (UNSW)
Junior Researcher (Interaction Design) | Sep 2022 - Present
UNSW Creative Robotics Lab
Studio Assistant | Feb 2023 - May 2023
Tricia Flanagan Artist Studio
Student Research Assistant | May 2022 - Aug 2022
UNSW Creative Robotics Lab × UNSW ADA Innovation Hub
Teaching
Lecturer & Tutor - DDES1150 Interaction 1: Principles and Practices (Bachelor of Design, UNSW)
Teaching Assistant - DDES9016 Design Studio Project 1: Proposal (Master of Design, UNSW)
Teaching Assistant - DDES9017 Design Studio Project 2: Final Design (Master of Design, UNSW)
Education
Master of Design | 2022 - 2023
University of New South Wales, Australia
Bachelor of Engineering in Landscape Architecture | 2016 - 2020
Nanjing Forestry University, Communist China
Skills
UX / UI Design
User Research
User Testing
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
Speculative Design
Art Curation
Co-Design & Design Thinking
Art & Design Tutoring
Research through Design (RtD)
Academic Writing
Creative Problem Solving
Wire-framing
Journey Mapping
Video Production
Presentation Design
Visual Communication
Sketch App
Adobe XD
Figma
Apple Keynote (Advanced)
Adobe Photoshop
AutoCAD
SketchUp
Fusion 360
Twinmotion
Arduino
HTML
CSS
Python (Basic)
C / C++ (Basic)
Honors & Awards
Big Anxiety Research Center 2024 Forum Selection (Project ./behave_mechanical) | Mar 2024
UNSW Postgraduate Dean’s List of 2023 | Feb 2024
Frost* Design Prize - Shortlisted (Project ./behave_mechanical) | Dec 2023
UNSW Postgraduate Dean’s List of 2022 | Feb 2023
Creative Confidence Grant (A$2,000), UNSW ADA Innovation Hub | Jul 2022
Volunteering
Peer Reviewer | Apr 2024
The 16th ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition (C&C ’24; Chicago, USA)
Local Coordinator, VR & XR Session | Dec 2023
ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 Conference (Sydney, Australia)
User Testing Sessional Host | Oct 2023 - Dec 2023
UNSW Creative Robotics Lab × Australian Defence Force
Student Volunteer Chair | Dec 2022
The 10th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI ’22; Canterbury, New Zealand)
Publications
Akmal, H. A., Shaw, J., & Sandoval, E. B. (2022). Interactive perceptual companion: Prototyping a digital perception for HAI. HAI ’22: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, 266–268. https://doi.org/10.1145/3527188.3563938
Flanagan, P. J. (2023). NEEDLE WORK – Revealing relational agency aesthetics of craft through Human/Robot interaction. C&C ’23: Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Creativity and Cognition, 235–238. https://doi.org/10.1145/3591196.3593363
(Credited with photography, production, and videography)
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