humanVUI: Human Centered Voice Design

Voice user interfaces (VUI) have arrived. Worldwide, this technology is in the lift and enabling the exchange of information through voice interactions. As a result of the growing popularity of this technology, companies fanatically started with the designing of their own skills and/or actions. But although, this over-enthusiasm, leaves the ‘why...

Design with Data

In the emerging field of data science many exciting things are happening. Through the Internet of Things, health trackers and more we are collecting all kinds of data, that allow us to learn more about the world around us than we could have ever imagined. But how do we deal with this as designers? Why would we design with data, and how can we?...

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...

Designing Value Chain Optimization Solution with a Realtime Streaming Calendaring Service

This master thesis shows the process of designing business models for value chain optimization with the realtime streaming calendaring service platform, and the process of designing a business model generation toolkit. It was done for the startup company Calendar42, located at YES!Delft. During the graduation project, 4 business models were...