Energizing sleep-deprived parents: Unlocking parents evening activities with mindful and secular rituals

Being mindful in the evening is overlooked for sleep-deprived parents with young children, especially with tv's and smartphones grabbing their attention. This graduation project explored in the context of personal energy care to unlock evenings for parents and found out that mindful and secular rituals can energize them. The core elements of a...

Design for Product care: The development of a design tool for product lifetime extension

To realize the shift towards a Circular Economy, products should stay usable as long as possible. Maintaining products is the most efficient way of retaining their desired level of performance. This is called Product care. Product care can be understood as any action that helps to prolong the lifetime of a product. The aim of this thesis is to...

Developing a design approach for The Continuous Behaviour Cycle

When looking at the world around us, most of our surroundings are artificially constructed. These constructions have persuasive power and affect human behaviour, whether intended or not (Tromp & Hekkert, 2018). The industrial design discipline is responsible for configuring our environment, and therefore, for the influence that they might...