Amy Parker
(she/her)
I’m a Product Design student preparing to progress into the Psychology Conversion MSc at University of Stirling. My practice explores the relationship between design, psychology, and human behaviour through thoughtful, research-led approaches focused on empathy, connection, and meaningful human-centred experiences.
Autonomy
Year 4 Project
Where you start isn’t where you have to end
Autonomy is an interactive board game designed for high school students, created to explore how the environments we are born into influence the choices we make. I developed this project to encourage reflection on the differences in opportunity, support, and pressure that young people experience, and how these factors shape their paths.
Through gameplay, players are assigned contrasting environments with varying resources such as stability, energy, and support. As they navigate decisions, challenges, and academic tasks, they experience how
these starting conditions affect their progress. The inclusion of stress, burnout, and consequence systems reflects real-life pressures, while also emphasising the importance of rest and balance. By introducing uncertainty and multiple ways to play, Autonomy aims to prompt discussion around fairness, decision-making, and personal responsibility. The project ultimately highlights that while our starting points may differ, we still have the ability to influence our own direction.
Card close-up
Poster
Bloom
Year 4 Project
A Bloom Of Shared Life
Bloom begins unbloomed, it’s made of different textured materials and lightly infused with lavender. Bloom travels from person to person, becoming more worn with each user, gathering subtle scents and traces of the lives it touches. For those who struggle with social anxiety or connection, it offers a quieter way to share life. When you lift it to your face, you can smell the infused lavender, but you also breathe in a blend of familiarity, newness, and microbial germs, a reminder that others had it before you, others that also struggle. The different textures allow it to have a nicer touch on your skin for different preferences. Over time, through simple human handling, the bloom naturally opens. So, it is shaped quietly and beautifully by everyone who held it before you. A share of our microbial germs.
This project invited us to imagine future possibilities and design something that could contribute to a more equitable world. As part of Creating Future Ecosystems, my group explored how microbiomes could be used to support people’s wellbeing and improve everyday life. My individual response to the brief is called Bloom, a concept developed around care, connection, and personal wellbeing.
Bloom Product
Holding Bloom
Storyboard
Cultivating Cultures
Year 4 Project
In a world where health is collective
Health, in this world, is not something possessed, it is something practised together.
The body no longer ends at the skin. Wellbeing is shaped by shared air, shared soil,
shared food, and the invisible life moving between us. As ecological loss and social
inequality intensified through the 2030s, communities began to treat microbial diversity
as a common good.
Public gatherings replaced clinical encounters. Care is practised
through touch,
fermentation, storytelling, and play. Public parks, gardens, and streets became sites of
exchange where food, microbes, and knowledge circulate freely.
Here, participation matters more than optimisation. Health circulates through
relationships rather than prescriptions. To belong is to contribute, to receive, and to care
for the living systems that sustain us, human and non-human alike.
Earthed Embrace
Year 3 Project
This project was about looking into the future, predicting what might happen, and then finding a solution. I was given the word “bedroom,” so I had to create something based around that idea.
My persona was someone living in a large dystopian tech city who had become more connected to and invested in a virtual world than the real one. The only thing he still truly loved in reality was his cat, while everything else was slowly slipping away from him, his home, his dream job, and his connection to the physical world.
This innovative product helps people in virtual worlds reconnect with reality by measuring over-stimulation. When your heart rate rises, it blocks your Wi-Fi and locks your devices, while gently closing around you like a comforting hug. The attached earthing mat activates, grounding you to the Earths natural energy, which can reduce inflammation, improve sleep, and restore balance. It’s a long-term solution to promote mindfulness, well-being, and a healthier connection to the real world.
