Design a digital experience that delivers value to smart home users: Inspire and guide people to automate their homes, so they can live a carefree life

A smart home can be defined as a system of connected devices that are controlled remotely from one central place. Smart home solutions used to be for early adopters who like the novel and fun part of this new technology. Currently the smart Home market is moving to mainstream users. Hombli is a smart home brand established in 2019 in the...

Creating an effective peer-to-peer alarm network in social housing neighbourhoods for Homies.

Project background<br/>Insurance company Achmea and consulting and IT services company Accenture commenced a collaboration in the fall of 2015 in an attempt to address burglary damages in social housing apartments. This project was called ‘Homies’. In order to achieve their goal of reducing burglary costs, the Homies team created a concept for...

Sustainability Inspired Materials Selection App for Designers

This graduation thesis presents the results of the design of a sustainability inspired materials selection app for designers. Sustainable design, and in specific ecodesign plays an increasingly important role in society. However, industrial designers, being uniquely suited to take such considerations into account, have difficulty in finding the...

Design a total concept that integrates online and offline retailing for Pets Place

Pets Place is the largest pet retail chain in the Netherlands. It is a franchor with about 170 stores in the Netherlands. Apart from the physical stores, Pets Place also has a website containing a webhop, the online store. More and more products are bought online at the expense of the physical retailers. The internet can be seen as a threat, but...

Redesign of device and user interface ergonomics for service agents at KLM

Introduction This report is part of a graduation project performed for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM). KLM is the flag carrier airline of the Netherlands. The report is about the introduction of the iPad as information source for the ground agents at KLM and the ergonomics concerning the use of it. The main goal of the iPad is to improve the...