Beige by Default: The issue of skin tone inclusivity in product design and a proposal for resolving it in design education and professional practices

Past and current product design practices have not been and are not skin tone inclusive. People with darker skin tones are regularly excluded from the design process and the final product. Examples of this are the simple adhesive bandage and the more advanced facial recognition software. This project aimed to change this through an exploration...

Meaningful prototyping in Primary Education

At the moment design is taught in primary education. Teachers often use the design cycle which consists of six phases: 1) Exploring & formulating the problem, 2) Generating & selecting ideas, 3) Generating & selecting concepts, 4) Building prototypes, 5) Testing & optimising and 6) Presenting. There are several tools available...

Design for social learning: Encourage people to learn with and from their co-workers in a natural way

A framework to implement social learning in online solutions for educational consultancy TinQwise

Introducing distributed networks to designers: Development of an educational software tool and a methodology for its evaluation

Available connectivity in everyday objects has inspired design experts to develop methodologies for designing interactive environments - large-scale environments existing out of multiple embedded devices that interact with a user as if to be a single entity. The computer science community uses ad hoc distributed networks to accommodate scaling...

KiteSim: Designing a new interactive kite simulator

This report is written as a graduation thesis for the Master’s degree in Design for Interaction, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at the Delft University of Technology. It describes the process of researching, prototyping and evaluating a new interactive kite simulator, developed within a consortium of design firm Frank & Frens; the TU...

PLU+ a learning democracy: Strategic-Design Vision of Philips Lighting University

To begin with, I would like to ask you a question; do the following statements ring a bell? “Changing technology”, “evolution of the market”? I assume your answer is yes. If not, in any case I would like to share my experience with you, also something you could try. Type “changing technology evolution of markets”, these exact words, in a search...

IO-Board: An Arduino based modular electronics toolkit

The project ‘an Arduino based modular electronics toolkit’ handles the research and design of a modular electronics prototyping kit, targeted at Industrial Design Engineering students at the Delft University of Technology. At first, during the analysis phase, interviews were conducted with the different stakeholders. These interviews included...

Insight Studio

This project is about finding the "ideal" studio conditions for design education. The research describes the basic needs for accommodating design education through studio spaces. The final design of the project is a new building for the faculty of Architecture. It can be seen as a late submission for the contest "building for Bouwkunde" which...

Het is altijd hetzelfde liedje!: Educatief muziekplatform voor het basisonderwijs

This graduation project is a collaboration between Music Library Rotterdam (in Dutch: Centrale Discotheek Rotterdam (CDR)) and Delft University of Technology, faculty of Industrial Design Engineering to improve the quality of music education at primary schools in The Netherlands. The aim is to make the music collection of CDR accessible and...

Schoolkompas, A website to support in choosing a secondary school

In the Netherlands, every year 200.000 pupils make the transition from primary to secondary education. Selecting a secondary school is no longer as ‘simple’ as finding a school with the same religious views. Pupils and parents want to know more information about schools, like quality and atmosphere. Some of them have easy access to information,...

The Future of Delft Open Courseware - How to build a sustainable environment for Open Educational Resources

Delft University of Technology started publishing some of her course materials online from September 2007 in a project called Delft Open Courseware (OCW). This report discusses the future of this project, describes important issues that should be addressed in order to become sustainable, and ends with an advice on how this can be done.