How boredom helps me flourish

Our life is full of products that are designed to claim our attention. We learn to occupy every piece of time we have. We want to spend our time ‘useful’. We only have 24 hours each day and we even need to spend some of it on sleeping. This attitude of being occupied all the time seems to have a major downside. People are exposed to too much...

CoLLab: A Co-Op Application for Music Production and Promotion

The thesis project is originating from a start up project under the name of Phonotone. This start-up company wrote the assignment for the design of the interactions and interface of a new platform for young producers of digital music in The Netherlands. The assignment was written as a starting point for this thesis and was meant to give...

Designing a Feminine Hygiene Room for Public Toilet Facilities in Indian Slums

This project is part of the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Delft University of Technology. Due to the lack of proper sanitation facilities in Indian slums, there are hardly any possibilities for women to discretely manage their menstrual affairs during the day. If women are not able to address...

The story of product presentation

The offline and online world of product presentation are separated by a difference in interaction. The goal was to get a better understanding of where these worlds of product presentation meet; and use this knowledge to enrich the shopper experience. An exploration of both worlds showed that this separation does not have to lead to a difference...

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...

Bringing the Library home

With overloaded bookshelves, CD racks and film collections containing items that you do not necessarily need to keep, but neither want to throw away, we can make other people happy. Everyone who participates in this project is asked to give away some of these books, CDs and DVDs, and will receive collections from others in return. You give these...

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...