From Consumers to Users and Contributors

To meet the growing demand of mobile devices, it is important to regain and re-use the products, components and materials. The first steps are already taken by introducing new business models towards the circular economy. To stimulate these circular business models, suggestions are given how to change customer behaviour towards circular economy...

A RooT coloured e-scooter: Redesigning the RooT Reverse Tilt Mechanism for a consumer e-scooter

The RooT Reverse Tilt Suspension platform is an integrated suspension mechanism which delivers a unique experience: “like riding a magic carpet, playful, fluent and self-balancing”. With their innovation RooT wants to bring a positive impulse to green mobility on the electric scooter market. The key to RooT’s innovation is a rod mechanism which...

Product Design for a Circular Economy: A case study towards a circular luminaire

In general the majority of the current economy is a linear economy based on a ‘take-make-dispose” model that relies on easily accessible resources and energy. This creates huge amounts of waste at end of life impacting nature and society. Furthermore resource scarcity is increasingly becoming an issue impacting price and availability of products...

A Redefined Ink Cartridge Inspired by Nature

This graduation project is a research on a new sustainable cartridge solution for Tonerpearls ink. The Tonerpearls cartridge is part of the Colorwave printer, positioned in the market as a ‘green’ flagship. The challenge The report addresses three problem owners: the company; its customers and the environment. The company aims for a cartridge...

Design of the RooT Electric Scooter: The Full Functioning Prototype

The RooT is an electric scooter designed to create a new user experience that enhances the advantages of electric mobility: it is quiet, clean and intuitive. It moves with you like a “flying carpet”. In the previous projects, the RooT concept has already been developed until a first prototype. This first prototype was still a very primitive...