PeerPost, a peer-to-peer PostNL service

PeerPost: a peer-to-peer PostNL delivery service This graduation project, executed for PostNL, started with the need for a future proof PostNL location. The aim was to give an advice and vision on what such a location should entail. Furthermore, the elements needed to make it function were to be designed. The design brief raised the question...

OV-betalen for international travellers

This study presents the development of a future vision and service proposition to improve the experience of international travellers when using public transportation in the Netherlands in a user-centred way. The focus is set on international travellers, who arrive at an airport in the Netherlands. Purchasing public transportation tickets in the...

A flexible and personal domotica system for apartment buildings

This report describes the process and the results of an Industrial Design (DfI) graduation project which was carried out for Nspyre in Eindhoven. The project served as a demonstration on applying user centred design in a traditionally technology driven product domain: domotica (home automation). The assignment was to create a tablet-based...

Method Selection Tool for User Centred Product Development

This thesis describes the development of a method selection tool to support product development teams in finding the most suitable method for their situation. The project results include a detailed design of a webapplication in which methods can be searched in a visual manner based on the researchers' product type, research goal, resources and...

Smart grids: Changing consumer interaction

Today, the supply of energy is based on fossil fuels, which is often considered as an important cause of climate change. Moreover, the supply of energy is increasingly dependent of a few, sometimes political instable regions. An energy transition is needed for the maintenance of our welfare and environment. The needed energy transition will...