I believe that everyday interactions subconsciously shape perception and behavior, and that redesigning these experiences for children can create meaningful and long-lasting impact. Aspiring to empower the younger generation to become better global citizens, I am interested in exploring how to foster empathy through the design of products, services, and the built environment.

By leveraging my experiences as a design engineer, entrepreneur, and educator, I want to invent creative solutions to systemic problems at the intersection of the sustainability and education sectors. As a master’s student in MIT’s Integrated Design & Management program, I am exploring ways to utilize human-centered design to create more engaging, effective, and natural learning experiences for children. I also strive to apply my learnings and expertise to provide better opportunities for the younger generation in my home country, Thailand.

​Featured Projects

Climate Change Conversations with Children

How might we make learning about sustainability meaningful, tangible, and actionable for young people?
We are developing a framework to help educators and parents understand how they can better communicate sustainability and climate change to young children. We use human-centered design to tackle an incredibly complex and systemic problem, with goals of preparing the younger generation for the unknown challenges of the future.

RumbleBug

A toy that encourages kids to explore the outdoors and reinforces healthy play habits
The RumbleBug is a creature that loves to play and explore! Curled up into a ball and equipped with a suite of sensors, the RumbleBug provides countless interactive play modes. By challenging children to explore colors and motions, it engages their imagination and encourages open-ended play. ​
Manufacturing Extravaganza: 50 Lamps Designed, Crafted, and Sold
Muse is a statement lamp created as an ode to MIT, a place where the best minds are brought together and great ideas are born. The lamp showcases the vibrant ambiance of the MIT campus through seasonal flora preserved in resin. Our exclusive Keepsake edition features leaves from a special tree on campus, a descendent of the apple tree under which Isaac Newton discovered gravity.

SmartWall

Revolutionizing the Way We Interact with Electronics
Smartwall provides a simple platform for powering, organizing, and controlling electronics. It also serves as a safe alternative to outlets and power strips. Users can pick and choose their own accessories, organize however they want, and communicate with the system wirelessly through an app.

Okavango

A Smart Micro-Greenhouse for the Modern Home
Okavango is the world's first countertop greenhouse. It allows you to grow your favorite herbs anywhere and all-year round, using patented climate control AgTech to optimize the growth environment.

Engineering & Design Projects

Fun Projects

Extraneous Cooks

ครก • Our logo is a Thai mortar and pestle known as a "Krohk". It is used for making chili pastes and dishes like Somtam, the Thai papaya salad. Pounding the papaya in the "Krohk" blends the flavors of all the different spices added to the dish, making it a perfect metaphor for our kitchen, which is at times a melting pot of different cuisines around the world, fusing exotic flavors and foreign ingredients. At other times, it is a kitchen that uses unexpected substitutes for ingredients that cannot be found in the little American city of Pittsburgh. We are the extraneous cooks: foreign, and very minimally extra.
ex·tra·ne·ous
/ikˈstrānēəs/
adjective

- irrelevant or unrelated to the subject being dealt with.
- of external origin.​
This is BamBam. She's from Thailand. She studied Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. She's been living in the States since 2010, and has been cultivating her cooking skills in a dorm setting. BamBam has always been an extremely picky eater, so she realizes that she must cook for herself to survive. She has a handful of phobias including spiciness, many red foods, and hummus, so there are several obstacles that she must overcome in the kitchen. She has a habit of taking five thousand pictures of each dish she makes, which is what started this project. She is very sensitive to onions, and sometimes wears safety goggles while cooking. She has trust issues with the dishwasher. ​
This is Gunn. He's half Thai, half Chinese. He speaks fluent English and hates it when people compliment him on his pronunciation. He's a polyglot who also speaks Thai, Mandarin, and some Shanghainese. He took seven years of Spanish since middleschool and is trying to minor in Japanese at university. He sometimes sings in French and Portuguese although he often doesn't know what the lyrics mean. He's studied architecture at Carnegie Mellon University and does the graphics for this account. He doesn't always go home over breaks, and he cooks Asian food to cure his homesickness, and says phrases in different languages when he cooks. He's got an identity crisis. ​
​​https://gunnc.com/