A review of marketing research on product design and directions for future research

How designers and marketers can work together to support consumers' happiness

A product’s value proposition rests on the notion that it brings value to its customers. Typically, such value is created by having novel product functionality, superior technology, or new customer benefits, but value can also be created by adhering to what is fundamentally important to customers in their lives. Focusing on customers’ happiness...

Novus Voltus et elit Consilium ( ‘New features and focus strategy’ )

This master thesis is the result of a graduation project for the MSc program of Strategic Product Design with the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering from Delft University of Technology, executed for Spyker Cars. The brands rich heritage has been passed over, with the acquisition of the brand name, to the new founded Spyker company and its...

Strategic advice for Gotcha’s design of new pantograph monitoring modules

This project was commissioned to investigate and assess the market potential of Gotcha’s new modules for pantograph monitoring and to deliver strategic advice on how to turn them into commercially successful products. The problem was tackled by carrying out an analysis of the internal and external environments and by conducting an in-depth...

Eco-efficient Value Creation: An Alternative Perspective on Packaging and Sustainability

The classical sustainability perspective on packaging is to reduce the environmental impact or eco burden of the packaging, using life cycle assessment to evaluate different design alternatives. Simultaneously, the classical marketing perspective on packaging is to generate value through differentiation, for instance, by providing additional...