About Me

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Victoria is a Graphic Designer, a Design Consultant.  She holds a Masters in Design for Interactive Media from the UK. Her professional experience includes design promotions, advertising and events management, web portals management and e-Solutions. As a professional Advertising Communication strategist, her experience and portfolio work includes a number of web projects mainly for the Malaysian (Kuala Lumpur) and Brunei industries. She is a senior academic with Swinburne University of Technology’s international branch campus in Sarawak, Malaysia.

Professional Consultancies:
Media & Interaction Design: Creative media arts and design as application to businesses

Professional Memberships:
. Academics International

. Interaction Design Association (IxDA.org) -
About IxDA: It was founded in 2003 in United States. It’s now a member-supported community and was officially incorporated in 2006 as a non-for-profit organisation to address the challenges that interaction designers encounter in their professional lives.

. TED: “Ideas worth spreading” -
About TED: TED stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design. TED is a global community with a mission of spreading ideas; it started out in 1984 as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.

. Design and Emotion Society -
About D&E: The Design & Emotion Society raises issues and facilitates dialogue among practitioners, researchers, and industry, in order to integrate salient themes of emotional experience into the design profession.

RESEARCH INTEREST

. Rhetoric in the Contemporary and New Media
. Affective Design: Aesthetics and Desirability – A Perspective on Creating “An Object of Desire” in Digital Art
. Computers As Persuasive Technologies: Transformational Design In The 21st Century