Ethics for Designers: incorporating ethics into the design process

To this end, the central aim of this research has been to explore ways for designers to incorporate ethics into their design process. A practice-based research methodology has been employed, with research methods including interviews, case studies and observations. A range of case studies has been executed at the faculty of Industrial Design...

How can scarcity be used to prolong the process of hedonic adaptation?

Consumer happiness is one of the things every company wants to create. They want people to be happy with their products and services since that leads to a positive association with the brand. After buying products or services people are “happy” about their new possession, it gives them an added value. This increase in happiness will not last...

With the Head in the Clouds: Daydreaming as a Mindset that facilitates Creative Incubation

This thesis proposes a new method to enhance designers’ creative performance. Applying the unconscious work theory of incubation effects, this thesis proposes that daydreaming during idea incubation could result in more novel and useful ideas by fostering unconscious associative processes. Building on previous findings by Baird et al (2012), who...

Unveiling the essence of the Knowledge Triangle

In order to overcome the innovation gap, the concept of Knowledge Triangle (KT) and Knowledge Triangle Integration (KTI) is gaining interest within national and European policies. It also functions as the cornerstone of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), which has a prominent role in Europe’s Horizon2020 strategy to...

Emotionally Durable Lighting

Emotionally Durable Design intends to develop products that will generate emotional links with users, with the intention for them to keep these products for a long time. This, from a sustainable point of view, is an interesting step towards stopping resource depletion and minimize production rates needed. LED lighting is changing the way...

How to integrate UX research in an Agile process

Problem Statement The most standard used process for developing software is currently Agile. Agile splits up the design process in so called two week “sprints” thereby making this process fast and efficient for developers. But current methods of usertesting don’t fit with this fast-paced process as, they are time consuming and too extensive....

Interacting with patients and their parents: Exploring design opportunities for supporting pediatric oncology nursing staff

The assignment of this graduation project was to investigate the current interaction strategies of the pediatric oncology nursing staff in challenging situations on the pediatric oncology unit. Which interaction problems exist on the pediatric oncology unit? And which interaction strategies between the pediatric oncology nursing staff and...

Programming for Interaction Designers

Programming is a powerful tool for interaction designers, which provides significant opportunities in creating and testing new concepts. Designers and more specifically interaction designers go beyond the basic button & led interaction, but generally stay below production level coding and complex professional systems. However, programming for...

H2 Architecture

Hydrogen Technology integrated in an architectural design.

Research & Development of Mobile Research Tool

This master thesis describes an exploratory research and design process towards concepts that support consumer research to achieve the deeper information in an enterprise’s view. To understand the background of Winkle as well as the mobile platform, and get insight in the mobile behavior, three studies were carried out: Winkle internal research,...

New market opportunities for Fokker's E-Lighter® technology: Powering camera crews

Fokker Aerostructures is a Dutch company, specialized in developing, designing and manufacturing products and technologies for the aerospace and defense industry. Fokker is currently developing the E-Lighter®; a lightweight, portable energy source that uses diesel to generate electric power. At the moment it is solely being developed for the...

Provotyping in the wild: A research project about provocative prototypes in the fuzzy front end of an innovation project

This report is about my final Design for Interaction master’s project I did at SPIRE research centre in Sønderborg about provotyping. This work is part of PhD candidate Laurens Boer’s promotion. Provotypes are provocative prototypes that are used at the fuzzy frontend of an innovation project to understand how people experience phenomena they...

Saving Energy Through Family Fun: Parents and Children Playfully Reducing Energy Consumption Together

In this project, the interactions between parents and their children, while performing daily activities were researched, as well as their opinions on energy saving and playing games together. Using these insights, a product had to be designed that fits within the current activities at Philips and that brings together parents and their children...

Design of a Household Monitoring Solution for Urban Patients with Heart Failure in China

This assignment can be seen as an integration of IPD and SPD assignment. The original assignment received from Philips is to design a new monitoring solution for the Chinese market. This is too broad for designing a product and as a result, need to be concretized obviously. Researches must be done to the healthcare status of Chinese people in...