Hi, my name is Cy Gorman — a designer, researcher, educator, and creative technologist exploring how human and technological systems feel.

I create emotionally intelligent, responsible, and future-oriented design experiences across disciplines. My work combines human-centered research, affective design, resonance (sound/light), AI, and immersive media psychology. I view design as a means for aligning values within incentive systems.

As the founder and principal research and design lead of Nurobodi, I explore intuitive audio-visual interaction frameworks for mood-regulation & wellbeing. This includes furthering UX/UI protocols to better understand and optimise affective resonance feedback loops, creating tools and frameworks that help us move from principles of affective interaction to environments of adaptive attunement.

I have designed and developed industry-benchmark courses for RMIT University, School of Design and Social Context as well as leading interdisciplinary collaborations (RMIT Blockchain/RMIT VX Robotics Lab/RMIT-CSIRO), mentoring students, alumni, researchers and industry professionals through critical, systems-driven, creative and future-focused design processes and procedures.

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WHERE DO you and I CONNECT?

🧩 Strategy, UX & Systems Thinking

Gain insights from my skills and experience in research methods for CX/UX mapping of AI design and development integrations for gold standard industry, academic and creative collaboration integrations.

🎛️ Affective (Emotional) Interaction Design

Get a feel for how I work with holistic and cutting edge affective (emotional) design theory and practice to map and design emotionally attuned systems and experiential feedback loops.

🎓 Education & Training; Design and Delivery

Review my background, skills and experience in the research, design and delivery of gold standard HE/VET/Professional future-focused training pathways across multiple disciplines and industry outputs.

🎨 XR + Spatial

Explore my diverse portfolio of projects exploring Extended Reality (XR) — encompassing Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR) — is redefining how we experience and interact with environments, information, and each other. Spatial design within XR moves beyond single flat screens, aiming for immersive, multi-dimensional experiences where physical and digital realities blend