Personal Air Filter: A purpose-designed air purifier to reduce the spread of airborne transmissive diseases in offices

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of indoor air quality in preventing the spread of airborne transmissive diseases. Offices are some of the largest hotspots for disease transmission. To address this issue, a joint venture between FLEX/design and Euromate, called ‘X-Lair,’ aims to design an air purifier specifically targeting...

Methodology for crowd management measures: A study to define and apply a methodology to create crowd management measures suited for Hubs under (re)constructions while business is performed as usual

This thesis covers the research of a new methodology that is able to create crowd management measures for hubs that are under (re)construction where business is performed as usual. The methodology contains the steps required to perform a case analysis and use the information gathered to create and deliver practicle, feasible and efficient crowd...

Envision: enabling vision for visually impaired

Envision began as an attempt to increase independence for people with visual impairment. During the course of the project, through a very participatory design approach, a deep understanding of the challenges faced by visually impaired people was obtained. A technology exploration in search for potential solutions led to the discovery of the...

Redesign of a solar home system: An expandable and understandable solar home system for rural Cambodian families

Kamworks is a social enterprise with a vision to improve access to electricity in Cambodia’s rural areas by selling solar products to the local population. Their main product, a solar home system, fulfils a household’s basic electricity needs. Creating an improved generation of solar home systems can contribute to further development of the...

Embracing Ambiguity in Product Design

What is ambiguity? Among designers and engineers, ambiguity is frequent a topic that is avoided for sake of facilitating smooth user-product interactions and ease in product use. This avoidance is different than other fields, such as art, which embrace ambiguity frequently to evoke intriguing and engaging art experiences. The potentials of...

Synthetic Biology For the Masses: Hardware that makes engineering biology easier for the next generation of innovators

Synthetic biology is the cutting-edge field of designing biological systems to perform as genetically-engineered technology capable of useful tasks. It has huge potential for many revolutionary applications. These include the development of smart medicine - such as bacteria programmed to seek out and destroy cancer cells [Chakravarti, 2015], or...

VOLANS FISA: Design of a multipurpose rowing boat for beginners

Volans Rowing wants an entry-level rowing boat for beginners that could complete the company portfolio. Thus, FISA and Volans are set as the main stakeholders and established the goal of design a multipurpose rowing boat, , for all type of users, men and women, from 14 years old till adults, which a retail price of € 1000. The project starts...

The influence of ‘Unity-in-Variety’ balance ratios on Aesthetic Preference

This study examined the aesthetically preferred balance between perceived unity and perceived variety, by systematically manipulating two different web page designs on design dimensions influencing perceptual unity and variety. The manipulated web page design scoring, conducted from 5 different questionnaires among 112 laymen (aging between 18...

Design of An Integrated Service System for Gracipe to Faciliate and Persuade Home Cooking

In October 2013, Gracipe launched its beta website to a limited amount of users with a selection of visualized recipes. Later, the team received a significant amount of feedback, both compliments, as well as suggestions for improvement. However, the initial feedback indicated a graduate decrease of the website’s daily page views per visitor. It...

The design of a cordless kitchen appliance for the European kitchen of 2020

This thesis describes my graduation project at the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering in Delft, which has been conducted for the Product Design Group of Philips Research in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. The goal was to create a feasible and meaningful product proposal that makes use of the wireless power technology. As a result, a concept...

Facilitating Teamwork in Orthopedic Surgery by Product Design

This report gives an overview of the process and the results of the graduation project called 'Facilitating Teamwork in Orthopedic Surgery by Product Design'. The project is part of the Highly Individualized Patient Projects (HiPP), a research consortium between Industrial Design Engineering faculty in TU Delft, Biomet, and Reinier de Graaf...

Freeform Surface Interfaces Created Using Additive Manufacturing

The assignment for this thesis was to develop a new visual product feature that is uniquely producable by additive manufacturing (AM) methods. In the first phase of the project the field of additive manufacturing was explored and the visual properties of products were studied. The most important finding here was that some AM technologies are...

Design of a product to support safe and convenient use of the medication roll: A study of medication distribution to patients

Since the Dutch society has to deal with ageing of the population and the amount of healthcare requests is increasing more and more, medication safety at home gained high priority. The introduction of the medication roll, in which pills for one administration moment are packaged in a plastic pouch, already supported patients in their therapy...

SOSafe: Car Safety Trough Communication

This report describes the design process of a new car safety device developed at LifeSafety Products B.V. located in Zoetermeer, the Netherlands. Life Safety Products B.V. has been dependant on their number one selling product, the LIFEHAMMER®. Now they want to invest in the development of new products in the field of car safety, in order to...

n•light•n: Design of a wireless sensor nodes application for elderly people supporting their independence

Assignment: The assignment was to design a product around CHESS' Wireless Sensor Network technology ‘MyriaNed’ that shows the potential of the WSN technology towards new clients for CHESS and supports independently living elderly people in their daily life. However, elderly people are not always open to new technologies. The challenge is to...