LIGHT DESK

I design interactions you can feel.
Between people, products and places.

Please, touch.

Drag to turn. Click a work to bring it closer.
Click the front work to open its story.

TANGIBLE MUSIC LEARNING

Melody Mate

What if you could pick up a sound?

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01 / SELECTED WORK

Different questions.
Unexpected connections.

Start with a person.
Follow a question.
Make something respond.

SPATIAL INTERACTION2024–25

FloraEcho

A small pause. A different kind of encounter.

Plants, stepping surfaces and sound turn a campus break into an invitation to participate.

For University students

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WEARABLE INTERACTION2025

Easwallow

Start with the body.

A swallowing-training concept shaped around physical comfort, understandable feedback and the people supporting a routine.

For People living with Parkinson’s

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TANGIBLE MUSIC LEARNING2025

Melody Mate

An idea you can pick up.

Small hands, physical choices and three ways to explore music: Create, Learn and Challenge.

For Children aged 3–6

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COCKPIT & SERVICE SYSTEM2025–26

Plateau Ark

Beyond the dashboard.

A cockpit and service-system concept that connects the demands of driving with the journey before and after it.

For Qinghai–Tibet freight drivers

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02 / EXPLORATIONS IN MATERIAL & FORM

Deep Sea
Drifters.

Light caught in a fold.
A marine-inspired garment exploration,
from translucent fabric to sculptural form.

Explore the materials & makingA COLLABORATIVE GARMENT PROJECT

Back view of the completed garment, showing iridescent pleated shoulders and trailing translucent ribbons — 01 / FORMA drifting silhouette ↗

Close view of translucent blue mesh with a fine scale-like surface — 02 / SURFACE

Hands gathering iridescent pleated material into a sculptural fan — 03 / MAKING

03 / THE PERSON BEHIND THE WORK

Thinking with
my hands.

I work across product form, digital interfaces and interactive environments. Research helps me frame a question; sketches, physical studies and interface experiments help me work towards an answer.

I’m interested in the everyday details of interaction: how something sits against the body, how it invites an action, and how it responds.

Take a closer look at my portfolio

A few things from my workbench.

Clay, code and small experiments.
Click a piece to look closer.

Please, touch.

Melody Mate