{"id":6981,"date":"2025-07-29T16:10:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T16:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/?p=6981"},"modified":"2025-08-14T20:09:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T20:09:49","slug":"proud-aiemruksa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/proud-aiemruksa\/","title":{"rendered":"Proud Aiemruksa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>RESIDENT RESEARCHER<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Website :<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.c\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.c<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/hanyanuch.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hanyanuch.com<\/a><br><strong>LinkedIn :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/c-aiemruksa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.linkedin.com\/in\/c-aiemruksa<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"651\" src=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/proud-headshot.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/proud-headshot.jpg 683w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/proud-headshot-300x286.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>Chanyanuch Aiemruksa (Proud)\u00a0is a Thai-born product designer and creative technologist who believes good design should be functional, emotionally resonant\u2014and ideally a little fun.\u00a0 A proud Fulbright Scholar (pun intended), she blends emotional storytelling, emerging tech, and playful experimentation across UX\/UI, product strategy, and interactive installations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She likes building silly things (absurd cookie dunkers) but also serious ones (AI-powered emotional landscapes &#8211; her thesis) and believes the best work lives in the balance between both. Whether in a classroom, lab, or museum, her projects invite people to reflect, explore, and giggle often all at once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her work has been exhibited at the\u00a0<strong>American Museum of Natural History,\u00a0Wikipedia Day, and\u00a0HSNY<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently based in New York,\u00a0Proud fluent in emotionally intelligent systems, participatory installations, joyful tools for care and connection and semi-impressive in\u00a0Thai, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, Korean, and Meow (just enough to impress). With that being said, she occasionally has a communication glitch ( depends on\u00a0Mercury retrograde)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Philosophy:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Build with intention. Lead with empathy. Always add cat memes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RESIDENT RESEARCHER Website :\u00a0www.chanyanuch.comLinkedIn :\u00a0www.linkedin.com\/in\/c-aiemruksa Chanyanuch Aiemruksa (Proud)\u00a0is a Thai-born product designer and creative technologist who believes good design should be functional, emotionally resonant\u2014and ideally a little fun.\u00a0 A proud Fulbright Scholar (pun intended), she blends emotional storytelling, emerging tech, and playful experimentation across UX\/UI, product strategy, and interactive installations. She likes building silly things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,20],"tags":[77],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7054,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6981\/revisions\/7054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/ima\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}