Connecting Coffee

The design challenge for this graduation project was to explore mobile device connectivity integration into coffee machine products. The result needed to be fitting to a coffee maker of Philips, without significant changes to the coffee machine. It was required that the proposition should include an mobile app. The approach was chosen to analyse...

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...

Programming for Interactive Prototypes

Goal In recent years, designers have increasingly started to make experiential prototypes containing electronics within the design process. This has been enabled by the rise of several microcontroller boards and software tools that decrease the complexity and cost of making such a prototype, allowing designers to construct these prototypes...

Design for Enhancing the Efteling Experience for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People

The Efteling has been welcoming and entertaining its visitors since the opening of the Sprookjesbos in 1952. The Efteling is accessible for every guest. It offers special facilities for wheelchair-dependent people, but people with hearing loss are not supported by any facilities. The company is advised to tackle this problem early on, because...

The Rediscovery of Zapping: Redesigning the ZappoTV Smart Phone App

This thesis describes the development of the redesign of the ZappoTV smart phone app. ZappoTV is a mobile media center for TV. With the app the user can select video, music and photos from various sources and play it on UPnP/DLNA enabled devices, like smart TV’s and set-top boxes. The current ZappoTV has issues concerning usability and user...

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...