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Bio-Based Plastics in Product Design: The State of the Art and Challenges to Overcome

Bos, P. (author), Ritzen, L. (author), van Dam, S.S. (author), Balkenende, R. (author), Bakker, C.A. (author)

Replacing fossil-based feedstock with renewable alternatives is a crucial step towards a circular economy. The bio-based plastics currently on the market are predominantly used in single-use applications, with remarkably limited uptake in durable products. This study explores the current state of the art of bio-based plastic use in durable...

journal article 2024

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The extent to which circular economy principles have been applied in the design of medical devices for low-resource settings in Sub-Saharan Africa.: A systematic review

Samenjo, K.T. (author), Oosting, R.M. (author), Bakker, C.A. (author), Diehl, J.C. (author)

Healthcare facilities in low-resource settings in Sub-Saharan Africa are plagued<br/>with issues of non-functional and obsolete medical devices, which ultimately<br/>end up prematurely disposed of as waste. With increasing healthcare demands,<br/>stopping medical device disposal is imperative. One way to achieve this is<br/>to leverage circular...

journal article 2023

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Nested affordance-based intuitive design tool: Affordance interaction matrix

Gao, Yixuan (author), Song, Duanshu (author), Liu, Li (author), Huang, Y. (author)

Affordances serve as design cues, facilitating users in effortlessly identifying the intended use of objects. However, due to the phenomenological nature of the affordance concept, its application and understanding in the human-computer interaction (HCI) domain remain uncertain, resulting in limited utilization in design practice. This study...

journal article 2023

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Why we like to touch: Consumers' tactile esthetic appreciation explained by a balanced combination of unity and variety in product designs

Post, Ruben A.G. (author), Blijlevens, Janneke (author), Hekkert, P.P.M. (author), Saakes, Daniel (author), Arango, Luis (author)

Tactile experiences are a pivotal part of consumer behavior and choice. However, very little is known about why consumers esthetically appreciate touching products. The principle of Unity-in-Variety, stating that consumers like to perceive variety but only when this variety is presented as a coherent whole, has been shown to partly explain...

journal article 2023

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Circular Composites by Design: Testing a Design Method in Industry

Joustra, J.J. (author), Bakker, C.A. (author), Bessai, R. (author), Balkenende, R. (author)

The design of composite products for a circular economy is challenging. Materials such as glass-fibre-reinforced plastics have long product lifetimes but are hard to recycle. For the effective reuse and recycling of products, parts, and materials, recovery strategies must be selected and implemented in the product design stage. This extends the...

journal article 2022

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Seeing is believing: investigating the influence of transparency on consumers’ product perceptions and attitude

Cheng, Peiyao (author), Mugge, R. (author)

Transparency is a design characteristic enabling consumers to see the technical details underneath the product cover to create a unique visual effect. However, involving transparency in product design increases costs; it is thus essential to investigate the effects of transparency to help designers and manufacturers to determine the cost...

journal article 2022

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PCQ: Preferred Comfort Questionnaires for product design

Anjani, S. (author), Kühne, Manon (author), Naddeo, Alessandro (author), Frohriep, Susanne (author), Mansfield, Neil (author), Song, Y. (author), Vink, P. (author)

BACKGROUND: Selecting the most suitable questionnaire(s) in comfort research for product design is always a challenge, even for experienced researchers. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this research is to create a list of Preferred Comfort Questionnaires (PCQ) for product design to help researchers in the selection of questionnaires for comfort...

journal article 2021

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BioForm – learning at the intersection of science and design

Palin, D. (author), Russell, Sam (author), Kohle, Ferdinand F.E. (author), O'Dowd, Enda (author), Tunali Flynn, S. Yesim (author)

Our future designers have much to learn from the complex and highly functional systems found in nature. Creating design products that are not only human-centred but also in tune with the natural world requires our designers to be exposed to natural phenomena and scientific principles. To provide design students with a starting point, we have...

journal article 2020

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Circular economy competencies for design

Sumter, Deborah (author), de Koning, J.I.J.C. (author), Bakker, C.A. (author), Balkenende, R. (author)

This study addresses what competencies (knowledge, skills, and attitudes) designers need in order to successfully design products and services for a circular economy. Existing literature, though sparse, has identified a number of circular economy competencies for design. Yet, a coherent overview is lacking. To complement the competencies found...

journal article 2020

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The Role of Product Design in Creating Circular Business Models:: A Case Study on the Lease and Refurbishment of Baby Strollers

Sumter, Deborah (author), Bakker, C.A. (author), Balkenende, R. (author)

In the transition to a circular economy companies are exploring new business models, implying a shift from selling products to offering products in circular business models, such as leasing.<br/>Product design is thought to play a crucial role in enabling this. Having a robust overview of relevant design roles and competencies is of foundational...

journal article 2018

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Barriers to and Enablers of Usability in Electronic Consumer Product Development: A Multiple Case Study

van Kuijk, J.I. (author), Kanis, H. (author), Christiaans, H.H.C.M. (author), van Eijk, D.J. (author)

This study identified practitioner-reported barriers to and enablers of usability in the development of electronic consumer products. Barriers and enablers are properties, situations, or conditions in the product development process, team, or context that negatively or positively influence the usability of a product. Based on a review of...

journal article 2017

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Approaching design for development from a capability perspective

Mink, A. (author), Van der Marel, F. (author), Parmar, V.S. (author), Kandachar, P.V. (author)

To improve the well-being of disadvantaged and marginalized populations by product design, deep contextual insight is required. However, literature does not specify which topics to discuss or which questions to ask. To address this issue, we used Sen’s capability approach to develop question categories and adopted a semi-structured interview...

journal article 2015

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The Design of Smart Product-Service Systems (PSSs): An Exploration of Design Characteristics

Valencia Cardona, A.M. (author), Mugge, R. (author), Schoormans, J.P.L. (author), Schifferstein, H.N.J. (author)

Smart Product-Service Systems (Smart PSSs) integrate smart products and e-services into single solutions. Smart products make use of information and communication technology (ICT) to collect, process and produce information, while e-services are web portals, apps and means alike, which facilitate the communication between service providers and...

journal article 2015

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Multi-dimensional digital human models for ergonomic analysis based on natural data representations

Moes, C.C.M. (author)

Digital human models are often used for ergonomic analysis of product designs, before physical prototypes are available. However, existing digital human models cannot be used to simultaneously: 1) consider the tissue loads and the physiological effects of the tissue loads; 2) optimise the product properties. This paper develops multi-dimensional...

journal article 2015

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Using social distictions in taste for analysing design styles across product categories

Snelders, H.M.J.J. (author), Mugge, R. (author), Huinink, M. (author)

This research uncovers seven cross-category design styles and demonstrates how people’s preferences for these design styles are based on social distinctions. Knowledge of these cross-category design styles and the research approach might assist designers when faced with the challenge of how to address different market segments, and how to play...

journal article 2014

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The Influence of Product Exposure on Trendiness and Aesthetic Appraisal

Blijlevens, J. (author), Mugge, R. (author), Ye, P. (author), Schoormans, J.P.L. (author)

Designers use product attributes (e.g., trendiness) to design aesthetically appealing products. The relationships of physical properties (e.g., shape) of product designs with product attributes and aesthetic appraisal are often considered to be generalizable over product categories and markets. However, in line with an interactionist view, we...

journal article 2013

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Surprise and humor in product design: Designing sensory metaphors in multiple modalities

Ludden, G.D.S. (author), Kudrowicz, B.M. (author), Schifferstein, H.N.J. (author), Hekkert, P.P.M. (author)

When information from two or more sensory modalities conflicts, this can evoke a surprise reaction as well as feelings of amusement, interest, confusion or disappointment. In concurrence to joke theory, we argue that people appreciate and enjoy appropriate incongruities that can be related back to the product, whereas they are confused by and...

journal article 2012

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Theoretical underpinning and prototype implementation of scenario bundle-based logical control for simulation of human–artifact interaction

Van der Vegte, W.F. (author), Horváth, I. (author)

This article presents a new methodology that enables designers to include in simulations not only the physics aspects of artifact behavior, but also human actions. The motivation for this research came from the fact that none of the conventional approaches to engineering simulations includes manipulative control of products by users as foreseen...

journal article 2012

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Consumer response to aesthetic mass customization

Mugge, R. (author), Brunel, F.F. (author), Schoormans, J.P.L. (author)

journal article 2011

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The effect of a business-like personality on the perceived performance quality of products

Mugge, R. (author)

People use the appearance of products as a cue for evaluating functional attributes at purchase. This research provides an understanding of this form-function interdependency by investigating the effect of a business-like personality in product appearance on the perceived performance quality of the product. A business-like personality is...

journal article 2011