Binna Lee
Interaction & Experience Designer Grounded in Embodied and Spatial Cognition
The body was always the interface. Long before screens, before spatial computing, before AI — human cognition was grounded in movement, sensation, and spatial experience.
I build on that foundation. As an interaction and experience designer, researcher, and educator, my practice defines the frameworks through which embodied selves navigate technological systems — from XR and spatial computing to HCI and AI. Grounded in Industrial and Product Design and driven by Research through Design, I translate the invisible architecture of human perception into tangible spatial experiences.
The Framework of Perception & Experience
My practice begins where most design frameworks stop — at the body.
I research, design, and build interaction and experience systems grounded in embodied and spatial cognition. This means treating the biological infrastructure of human perception — proprioception, vestibular orientation, sensorimotor feedback — not as context for design, but as its foundation. Through Research through Design, I develop architectural frameworks that connect human physiology to spatial interaction, translating invisible perceptual systems into tangible, navigable experiences across XR, spatial computing, and HCI.
At the core of this practice is a biopsychosocial approach to experience design — one that moves beyond "user-centered" to ask how biological, psychological, social, and environmental forces shape the conditions through which meaning is made. This is the framework I apply across research, prototyping, and built systems.
As an educator at Parsons School of Design and Project Director of Team Echo, I extend this framework into how designers think. I give designers and teams metacognitive tools — ways of disassembling complex, ambiguous problems and rebuilding them as coherent experience systems. The goal is not just better products. It is better conditions for human experience in an increasingly spatial and AI-mediated world.
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