Design for Youth's Flourishing: Intervention design strategies to enhance teenagers’ mental resilience and well-being

The urge to promote mental health and well-being is gaining increasing importance and attention in recent years. Adolescents, who are among the most vulnerable under this aspect, are experiencing an increase in mental health complaints and need of youth care in the Netherlands. In addition, they perceive current means of care as inappropriate to...

Mesh - A community-driven sharing platform

Peerby is a platform which enables its users to borrow products from one another. The company is currently looking to find more opportunities for business. As such, the company intends to explore the possibilities of an ownerless product; one that can be shared without the need for active human intervention. Due to the nature of the platform,...

How People’s Appreciation of Products Is Affected by Their Knowledge of the Designers’ Intentions

Products result from processes that are guided by designers’ intentions for what the products should be, what they should be like and what they should do. People might infer these intentions more or less accurately from the products’ form, or they might learn about them from a variety of sources such as advertisements and other marketing...

Anticipating Soft Problems with Consumer Electronic Products: How do soft problems interact with user characteristics and product properties?

Over the last decade consumer electronic product industries have been confronted with an increase in consumer complaints. Interestingly about half of the reasons for product return are based on so called ‘soft problems’, consumer complaints that cannot be traced back to technical problems. Probably this phenomenon results from technological...

Creating Socionas: Building creative understanding of people's experiences in the early stages of new product development

This work presents the research into Creating Socionas, a step-by-step approach to building creative understanding of user experience in the early stages of new product development (NPD). Creative understanding is the combination of a rich, cognitive and affective understanding of the other, and the ability to translate this understanding into...

Improving the User's Product Selection Experience by Designing a New Tool

People from diverse professions and industries use professional lighting products. However, the descriptions of the professional lighting products are focusing on the technical information of each product which needs a certain level of the lighting design knowledge and experience to understand. Therefore, there are some people who cannot fully...

User experience in public products: The effects of presence of other people

User experience with public products needs special attention considering the specific context. Different from other consumer or personal products that users own, public products do not belong to the user; they are shared with and used in front of other people. Thus, different concerns and problems are incorporated affecting the user experiences....

Improving the user experience of nasoenteral tube feeding

This graduation project originates from a discomfort of a patient who couldn’t obtain common food in a natural way due to an obstruction in the digestive tract. Therefore, the patient needed tube feeding, which had to be administered into the digestive tract using a nasoenteral feeding tube. Despite the importance of the tube, the user...

Interior functionality and user interaction design of the Cito 1+1

The thesis is about the concept interior design of the Cito. The Cito is a car that is able to drive both manual and automatic. This unique functionality requires the interior to be an environment which offers people confidence to let go of control and use that same environment as an efficient personal and enjoyable tool which supports people...