Echoes of Loss: Exploring Personal Grief through Recognition

Grief is a complex experience without a specific endpoint. It follows a unique path for each person. Many support sources are available, but finding support that fits is difficult. This inspired Verening Leven met Dood to develop the Rouw Wegwijzer, an online platform that provides personalised grief support. The focus of this thesis is to...

The Online Support Platform for Facilitating Effective Communications between Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy (FSHD) Patients and the Healthcare Network

Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is one typical type of chronic Neuromuscular Dystrophy. This type of disease necessitates network care because it is complex and necessitates a network of diverse healthcare expertise to reduce the negative effects of the disease and rehabilitate the patient to live a more normal life. As a result,...

Expanding the core-business of Stuvia leveraging the data of its existing online platform

Nowadays, many markets are formed around online platforms, which facilitates a place where sellers and buyers can find each other without knowing each other. An online platform acts as an intermediate between two people who can fulfil each other's needs. In addition to bringing the two sides into contact, a platform also facilitates payments...

An Advisory Framework for the establishment of E-commerce for FMCG-food goods in the Middle East (MENA)

This study aims to explain and understand how companies, more specifically Middle Eastern (MENA) companies in the FMCG-food sector can innovate from completely brick and mortar establishments to transition into an E-commerce platform (for FMCG-food goods) that enhances the willingness or intention to purchase these products on an online platform...

Online Interactive Public Participation for the Built Environment

Construction projects, especially infrastructure projects, create such a far and wide local impact that it is essential to carry out public participation processes. With the advancement of information technology, it is now possible to digitalize the public participation process and carry out the process via the internet. Through the development...

From idea to reality: A study on the stimulation of citizen initiatives for urban development by using online platforms

With smart governance, citizen participation for the delivery of services and the transformation of society to a participation society, there is an increased focus of governments on the stimulation of citizen initiatives and the usage of their knowledge for the delivery of services. What is seen more and more nowadays is that online platforms...

Design a mobile platform for Chinese outdoor travel

Selectour is a start-up company envisions to enhance the experience of outdoor travelers. There are two initial findings of the project: 1)The online travel information is fragmented and unorganized. 2)The working condition of outdoor team leaders for outdoor clubs was poor. The goal of the project was to create a strategic solution for...

A strategic plan for new launched online platform Jiejian

This report has multiple purposes and is foremost intended to initiate the first phase of the design process by analyzing the group Jiejian to a get a general idea of the group and its service. Apart from getting to know the group and its service, this report is also intended to show the way I approached the formation the vision of our user and...

Improving the effectiveness of online dialogue

This graduation report describes the process towards the development of a framework for designers of online platforms. The framework provides the designers with structure and insights for applying alternative tools within online platforms to enhance the effectiveness. Delft University of Technology and the company Favela Fabric in Amsterdam...