Design for happiness-enhancing activities: Development of design strategies for the activities of learning to forgive and avoiding overthinking

This research-by-design project provides designers with new strategies to design for sustained well-being.Positive activities have been proposed as the most promising starting point to improve well-being (Wiese et al., 2020). Currently, 14 activities have been identified (Lyubomirsky, 2007; Wiese et al., 2019). Avoiding...

Sustainable Happiness: How we can use psychological well-being to get people to consume less

The goal of this project is to find a way to get people to consume less, by changing what they do to improve their subjective well-being. It was found that the main issue that needed tackling is the fact that, currently, people are addicted to consumption - they depend on consumption for their happiness. The best way to remedy this would be to...

The pursuit of happiness; redefining the interior design of a Car2Go vehicle.

This graduation project redefines the interior of a Car2Go vehicle by using Design for happiness as explorative research. Design for Happiness is a fairly new term in the design world and is increasingly applied, though there is still no existing methodology. The outcomes of this report will be used as a case study for a scientific paper at the...

How to improve the subjective well-being of the the future elderly of the baby boom generation

This graduation project took place in cooperation with the design consultancy Pilotfish BV in Amsterdam and serves as an addition to the companies' portfolio, showing its interest in design innovation and research. Secondly, this project is supported by the Delft Institute of Positive Design, an IDE Delft institute that aims to develop knowledge...