Open Source Recycling: Developing an Open Source injection machine for recycled plastic

At this moment, the problem of plastic pollution does not need an introduction. Although recycling rates are slowly rising, plastic pollution remains one of the biggest threads to the global ecosystem. Especially in low-to-middle-income countries, industrial recycling systems are sparse due to their required investment.<br/><br/>Precious Plastic...

Participation at your doorstep: Stimulating social cohesion and building new relations between Rotterdammers and the municipality

Citizens experience a growing gap between their lived world and that of governmental institutions. The historical low turnup rate of last municipal elections in Rotterdam, 39%, reflect the low trust people have in the municipality and how they feel unrepresented by the city council. Because of this, municipalities are striving to bring politics...

Designing 3d-Printed Deployable Structures With Shape Memory Polymers

The aim of this project was to get a better understanding of the shape memory behaviour of 3D-printed polymers, and the different parameters which affect this, with the ultimate goal to apply shape memory in product design. This project started with a literature study on shape memory polymers and 3D-printing. The material properties, different...

Exploring the Virtual Reality Market Potential for Adjuvo’s S-Sense: Creating a Cross Industry Innovation using Patented Company Technology

The Sense Glove, which was originally called the S-Sense, is an exoskeletal glove from Adjuvo which can very accurately measure the position of the fingers. While this product was initially developed to help medical professionals in the hand and wrist rehabilitation field, the goal of this project was to see whether or not a market...

Hightech Groundfridge

The Groundfridge is a pre-fab root cellar that is installed underground, designed by Floris Schoonderbeek and produced by Weltevree. It is designed to keep fresh products like vegetables from a kitchen garden cool to increase their shelf life, without consuming energy. The Hightech Groundfridge project was initiated with the goal to research the...

A brain controlled exoskeleton for the upper extremities: A user centered design to improve the quality of life of MND patients

After a visit at a revalidation center in The Hague a design goal was established: Providing motor neuron disease (MND) patients with upper arm functionality to improve their quality of life. MND patients gradually lose function of their muscles, even their respiratory muscles. It has a severe impact on their own life, but also the lives of...

Water factory - How a festival could inspire to become sustainable

Project Festivals are a growing tremendously in the Netherlands and a popular way to explore new music bands and enjoy nature, together with friends and family. This is also an ideal environment to have an impact on the environment. And all festival visitors together could decrease the festival carbon footprint. All simply by refilling bottles...

Connecting deaf/hard of hearing students with their peers trough group work

This report is a master thesis for the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, at the Technical University in Delft, with the goal of graduating with a masters degree in Industrial Design Engineering, master Design For Interaction. The graduation assignment has been executed for the Dutch company Ask Roger, located in Delft. Ask Roger is an...

Web shop packaging strategy for a FairChain coffee company

New packaging is designed for a FairChain coffee start-up company. The project result contains insights in the company and the context, an overview of the web shop customer wants (after qualitative and quantitative research) and the final deliverable is a packaging design for a delivery box and the coffee bags inside.

Vertical urban gardening: The low-tech solution for growing food in cities

The growing number of cities and people living in relative small areas results in a decrease of nature. Therefore it is time to start thinking about new ways to bring nature back to people. This happened at Natuur op je Muur, a start-up company working on a vertical gardening system for school yards to enable children to learn about the origin...

Philips AVENT, design opportunities for a go-to hospital strategy

Philips offers a range of mother and child care products under the name of Philips AVENT. As Philips AVENT is the company’s brand for baby feeding, Philips Design sees a potential link with innovation opportunities for optimizing nutrition and partnering with families in the NICU and strengthening the business of Philips AVENT with a market...

Kim's Cookies: Finding brand relevance in the cookie market

Brand relevance theory by David Aaker (2011) was used to set up a cookie brand called Kim’s Cookies. The main objective for this cookie brand is to challenge the rigid market that is dominated by the big brands, by starting a new category. According to Aaker (2011), brands can reach relevance by following 4 steps: (1) create a new category, (2)...

CatWall

In the pet product market a gap has been noticed in the Dutch field of domestic cat products. Variation in cat perching solutions (commonly referred to as cat trees or scratch posts) has been limited. Almost all products look the same: plush levels connected with sisal posts. To seize this opportunity a new product with an original appearance,...

Customer loyality Strategy: The solution for the loyalty problem in the Hilti Dutch DSC Trade

Hilti has high market coverage but relatively low penetration in the Dutch Diamond Service Contractor (DSC) trade. There is also no dedicated strategy. This loyalty issue needed a solution. I fulfilled this position from a fresh point of view during my graduation project. The target groups in the DSC trade are Diamond Service Contractors (DSC’s)...

Assessment of sustainability in product design at BK cookware

BK (Berk Kampen) is a Dutch company part of the Royal Delft Group, which in the past 160 years has grown into a cookware brand that combines high quality with ease of use and prize-winning design. BK wants to deliver both convenience and inspiration for cooking through good products, specially developed for the needs of users through...

Growing with the grower: Developing a mid segment solution for Priva's horticulture business

Within horticulture, Priva is serving the top of the market with high quality, reliable, but also expensive solutions for process automation. Below this top of the pyramid, there is a big market that has a lot of potential. It is called the mid segment and requires cheaper and more basic solutions for automation. It has a lot of opportunities...

Defining the product propositions within a Philips grooming kit product range for the French market to improve margins for Philips, consumer preference over competition and trade up of consumers in price.

This master thesis focusses on defining the product propositions within a Philips grooming kit product range for the French market to improve margins for Philips, consumer preference over competition and trade up of consumers in price.

Bike polo gear: The evolution of a new sport

For hard court Bike Polo, a new team sport to the world since 1999, complete new gear sets were developed with the potential to revolutionise this sport into a mainstream sport. Major connection problems in the striking device were solved. A new head design eases striking and driving the ball. Safety items in the sport were addressed with the...