Varis Niwatsakul, Studio Lead, PLASTARC
Varis is a user experience designer and a human-centered design advocate interested in unleashing the power of architecture to be a flexible and desirable and spatial toolbox for augmenting human cognitive and physical capabilities — not simply a rigid container. Drawing on his architecture background and human-centered design research at Stanford’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (aka the d.school), his practice is rooted in the rigorous unpacking and synthesizing of complex human factors into meaningful and actionable insights that inform results-driven interventions. Varis worked as an architect, a strategic planner in branding and advertising, and an interaction designer before joining PLASTARC as a design analyst.