Being mindful in the evening is overlooked for sleep-deprived parents with young children, especially with tv's and smartphones grabbing their attention. This graduation project explored in the context of personal energy care to unlock evenings for parents and found out that mindful and secular rituals can energize them. The core elements of a ritual consisting of a focus, mood, and space, led to analyzing what the focus and intention behind the rituals were. Seeking relief, restoring balance, seeking control, and nurturing relationships are four secular ritual intentions/focus in the evenings to re-energize tired parents in the evening. These findings result in the mobile application: Tada. A gentle and guiltfree tool that suggests personal rituals with the four ritual intentions to energize parents in the evening. The direct way of choosing rituals creates moments of frictions that make you reflect what your current energy level is in the evening. It motivates you to try out new rituals you have not tried before. Tada does not make choices for you, but it only supports your choices. In this way, Tada makes you slow down and mindful to recharge you for the next day.

This master thesis is the result of a graduation project for the master Design for Interaction at Delft University of Technology. The aim of this project was to design a concept that improves the parental experience at the Intensive Care Neonatology (ICN) at the Amsterdam UMC. The experiences at the ICN can strongly influence the parental well-being and can even lead to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Therefore, this project focused on creating a low-stress parental experience. Various researches were done to specify the values and needs that need to be addressed. This resulted in the NICU Neighbourhood. This concept contains three different elements: The Lamp, the NICU Mailbox and the Writing Wall. The Lamp embodies the ritual of arriving and leaving, and makes parents feel decisive, competent and confident. It is a non-verbal connecting element between parents and informative tool for the medical staff. The NICU Mailbox creates a moment to settle in the Single Bed Unit (SBU) and makes the parents feel knowledgeable and reassured by providing them with information and enable them to make social contact in an accessible way. The Writing Wall ensures that the name of the baby is written on the glass door of the SBU for a higher sense of ownership. Together, these elements address all needs that need to be fulfilled in order to create a low-stress parental experience.

A smart home can be defined as a system of connected devices that are controlled remotely from one central place. Smart home solutions used to be for early adopters who like the novel and fun part of this new technology. Currently the smart Home market is moving to mainstream users. Hombli is a smart home brand established in 2019 in the Netherlands. The initial goal of Hombli is to address this mainstream market. They want to make smart home accessible to everyone, by offering a simple and affordable smart home solution. An analysis of the smart home market show that most smart home brands claim to offer a simple solution. Most brands also have another special focus in which they set their brand apart from the rest. The strong competition in the smart home market requires a stronger brand position for Hombli to stand out from the other brands. The new focus on the wellbeing of the user by providing “a carefree live with Hombli” is a promising new direction for Hombli. It is a unique direction in the smart home market and fits the current product portfolio. Users can create this carefree life by automating their Hombli devices using smart scenarios. However, a survey filled in by 149 current Hombli users show that only 23% say that creating scenarios is easy. Of these people 39% do not use scenarios at all. Besides these current Hombli users, also people without experience with smart home devices were analyzed using sensitizing booklets with daily assignments. The participants described their routines and used smart Hombli devices. This experiment showed that it is hard to come up with ideas for smart scenarios and that the process of adding new scenarios is difficult for some people. To make the new mission of Hombli possible, all users should be able to create scenarios that can improve their wellbeing. Therefore, the design goal for this project is to help Hombli users with little technical experience, to feel guided and in control when they add smart scenarios, so they can automate their routines. Three concepts are developed to explore different ways to create scenarios. These concepts are turned into prototypes and evaluated. The results of these user-tests can be summarized in three aspects: - Control: The user should have a clear overview of the scenarios, be able to control important settings in an easy way and scenarios should be visible at the device page. - Comfort: The design of the app should be calm, the user should feel guided through the different steps and should be able to get help when it does not understand something. - Convenience: The app should provide example scenarios which offer clear benefits to the wellbeing can be added conveniently to the app of the user. The final design combines these three requirements in one single experience. User tests of this final design show that people get inspired by the example scenario in the app and start thinking of different ways to automate their smart home devices. With this new app, Hombli can set itself apart as a brand that not just sells connected devices but cares about the wellbeing of their customers. Besides validation with users, the new app is also validated on feasibility for the company. Because developing a brand-new app from scratch requires a big investment, a better strategy is needed. The current app is based on the Tuya platform. Talks with Tuya developers explain the possibilities in changing the current app to create quick first steps in improving the experience in the current app by adding an extra section in the app with example scenarios. In a later stage, device panels can be improved to match the panels of the final design concept. After these short-term steps, Hombli should invest in developing their own services to create added functionalities to adapt to the evolving smart home market. New communication standards are in development that will make it possible to control smart devices from different brands using the same standard. The long-term strategy ensures Hombli will deliver a unique experience to users that value wellbeing by offering a carefree life with smart automations for every connected device at home.

The energy grid is transitioning from a centrally controlled demand response system to a decentralized supply response system. There are multiple reasons for this, but the main one is the need to transition to a low carbon energy system to tackle climate change and decrease our dependency on non-renewable energy sources. Next to this consumers become active consumers (prosumers) and increasingly take control over their local (energy) situation. As a result this transition creates a multitude of challenges and demands a re-design of the energy system. Stedin, the Netherlands 3rd largest Distribution System Operator (DSO), set out to find a solution to the challenges posed by the energy transition. The concept they came up with was a design for a Layered Energy System (LES). By running two pilots LES is fully developed and almost ready to be made available for the larger public in the form of a re-branding of LES to Lokaal Energy Flexibel (LEF). However, how LEF should be made available remains unknown. So in order for LEF to be launched to a larger public a new service needs to be designed. A service that sets out to communicate the information which is needed to start your own Local Energy Community (LEC) and collaboratively with Stedin and a service provider of choice set up a LEC. Designing this service is the task set out to solve in this project. One other task is determining what the role of Stedin should be in this process of setting up a LEC. The dilemma is Stedin wants to facilitate LECs and the market but on the other hand should not in turn take over responsibilities of the market. The methodology used to solve the aforementioned problem is service design. A concept service design is made that sets out to help communities explore how to set up a LEC. The design is centered around a community dashboard that shows the current energy situation within a community. All the data found in this dashboard can then also be used in a community configurator to create an ideal design for the local situation and community vision. This design is then communicated to Stedin in the form of a project sketch. Stedin can give feedback or a ‘go’ on the project sketch. This ends the explore phase, after which a LEC can turn to the market for materializing the design. The concept service is communicated with a future service scenario and a service blueprint. Out of this service blueprint the LEF landing page and the community configurator are prototyped and tested with potential users. After testing the solution and direction proved to be in the right direction. However a ‘dumb’ configurator as tested was found challenging for the typical community leader. This result vouches for a more data driven and automated configurator as proposed in the future service scenario. The thesis is concluded with a roadmap for implementation and advice on how to create an MVP as the first step towards implementing the service design.

All human beings eat food, but not always with the same intention. For many people, food can bring a feeling of comfort, at least in the short-term. As a result, some people turn to food in an attempt to heal emotional problems. The term ‘emotional eating’ has been defined as eating in response to emotional cues, often as a coping response to negative emotions like stress, boredom, loneliness, chronic anger, anxiety, frustration, and so on. Emotional eating behavior can affect the overall healthiness of a person in both the short and the long-term. If untreated, it may lead to food addictions and even obesity. The aim of this project is to transform the current mindless and impulsive eating practice into an experience that cultivates awareness regarding emotional responses and eating behavior. The human-centered design approach will lead to come up with design interventions creating attitudinal and behavioral change on emotional eaters. As a result of this self-initiated research & design project, two interventions were designed to tackle emotional eating behavior; Smash & Crack. These are special snack containers which work as mediators between impulsiveness and food by bringing a physical interaction. They aim to enable emotional eaters to express/alleviate current emotional distress before reaching craved food via behavioral expressions. Thanks to interactions, impulsiveness is transformed into mindfulness. As a conclusion, 'a mindful moment of indulging' prevents overeating of comfort foods and eliminates accompanying negative feelings.

The goal of this thesis is to design a digital media solution that can improve the visitor experience at the Van Gogh Museum by improving the visitor flow through the permanent exhibition galleries of the museum. By understanding the current visitor experience at the Van Gogh Museum, looking at goals and motivations of different visitor categories to the museum and looking for literature on museum visiting phases, a design concept was created. The final design concept consists of an interactive surface, placed at the beginning of the exhibition. Visitors can use this surface to personalize their own multimedia guide. This personalizing is done by adding topic related content to an existing story structure. This ensures all visitors follow a logical story through the exhibition but receive additional content on topics they find interesting. The design makes use of the individual goals of visitors, by letting them compose a unique and meaningful museum visit that fits their personal goals. Because visitors have composed a museum visit themselves, the museum has the opportunity to create an optimized visiting path for each visitor, while keeping in mind both the experience of the visitor and the available capacity throughout the museum.

This thesis presents research on data and healthcare and proposes a design vision that enables collaborative use of self-tracked data. This work was developed within the Cardiolab as a graduation work in Strategic Product Design. It aimed to identify the needs and aspirations of practitioners and patients and, then, embody the findings on a design vision. To develop the design vision, literature research was carried and user research was done with healthcare professionals and patients. Mixed methods were used to collect and analyze qualitative data. The results have revealed that trust plays a key role in a data-based collaborative system. It enables users and professionals engagements and provides value to other stakeholders involved. Furthermore, the research has revealed that ethical uses of data are critical to unlocking interactions in such a system. Based on that, a platform called "Insight .me" was designed. From a design perspective, this thesis emphasizes the need for enabling data as material for personal reflection and collaboration, besides, it reinforces the need of designing ethical and trust base businesses to deal with self-tracked and personal data.

Loneliness is a large and growing problem among adolescents. Body image has a strong relationship with loneliness, especially among young people. Therefore, a promising way to increase social wellbeing among this group is by increasing body satisfaction. This report presents various aspects that should be taken into account when designing an intervention for this topic and demographic. Several designs are suggested, one of which is made into a prototype and validated.  Cognitive models theorise loneliness as a consequence of bad coping behaviours for body dissatisfaction, among other things. Body dissatisfaction often results from internalising dominant cultural beliefs about appearance. An example of a dominant belief is that having a fit body can be interpreted as an achievement of discipline and perseverance that an individual has worked hard for. The reverse then also rings true: unfit people are lazier, less disciplined and more likely to give up. Many of these beliefs are so common that they seem unchangeable. However, history shows us that appearance ideals have changed dramatically in the past and that they result from the intricate way society is organised and how it develops within a period. Changing these beliefs is difficult and slow, but a good place to start is by realising there is often more nuance and variety in beliefs about being healthy and fit than we assume. While one person values a low-fat sixpack for the hard work that goes into it, another values the freedom a healthy and able body provides. It seems these behaviours and beliefs are closely related to expressing identity and feeling connected with others. This leads us to the question: Are there no other, more socially healthy ways to create this connection?  The intervention this report proposes offers a fun and light-hearted reason for adolescents to discuss their aspirations and the influence of dominant cultural beliefs and discover that there are more differences between people’s personal motivations and aspirations than they may know.

COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) is a lung disease that causes damage in the patients lung and results in energy and breathing problems. COPD patients often experience a decrease in their energy level. This decrease means they have to adjust their routine and habits and that can be a big challenge. In this graduation project the needs and challenges of COPD patients in regard to energy management are explored. The insights in the needs and challenges leads to a set of criteria. This set of criteria can be used to develop and evaluate e-health solutions that support COPD patients in energy management. Needs COPD patients have two general needs in regard to self-management: autonomy and security. They want to feel secure about their abilities and feel in control of their life. Challenges In order to adjust their routine and feel secure & autonomous the patients meets some challenges. Three groups, with a total of nine of challenges are defined based on interviews with patients. The three groups of challenges are: Keep focus on energy level and act if needed, Find new applicable routine, Put yourself in first place. Needs for support All the challenges of COPD patients lead to specific needs and needs for support. The needs for support are translated into criteria for e-health solution that help COPD patients with energy management. Criteria The result is a list of in total twenty validated criteria. The criteria can be used to evaluate concepts and when translated in a “how to.. “ question as guidens during ideation.

The aim of this graduation project is to increase physical exercise of employees with low socio economic status (SES) by engaging them in a health intervention. Individuals with low SES often negatively influence their health by having an unhealthy lifestyle. This lifestyle causes the individual problems and non-communicable diseases (NCD), which causes a shorter life expectancy and being ill makes it harder to participate in work activity. The client for this project is DZB Leiden, a re-integration company of the municipality of Leiden. DZB is there for everyone who wants to work but has difficulty keeping up with the current work practice. The people turning to DZB often experience a work disability and have a low socio-economic status. DZB also recognizes an unhealthy lifestyle among their employees. A healthier life will contribute to the well-being of the employee and will decrease employee absenteeism. Thus, not only looking from an employment perspective, but considering improvement of quality of life of their employees, DZB is determined to give a contribution to their employees’ health. To increase the physical activity of the employees, a persuasive game was designed to be played at DZB. Persuasive game design is a tool to motivate people to perform certain behaviours in a game experienced world, which can be beneficial to them in the real world. The physical activity experienced during the game can motivate people to perform the desired behaviour in the real life. In order to design a game based health intervention that will be accepted by the employees, an extensive field study was conducted. By taking a human-centered approach and co-designing with the employees a deeper understanding of the target group was created, including their view on health, motivations, barriers and needs. The findings from the field study were translated to 10 points of attention to be considered for creating the health intervention. Also, a framework for design was developed, including three motivational elements: humour, fellowship and discovery. By applying the 10 attention points and design framework, the final game ‘Sailors in Motion’ was developed. Sailors in Motion is a game where boats are hidden and searched for throughout the building of DZB in a scavenger hunt with treasure maps. Making and following these maps stimulates the player to walk around at DZB. The game is all about discovering new places in the building, which is done together with colleagues. Additionally, the game includes joyful elements. During the journey, health messages can be found, meant to educate the player about the benefits of physical activity. Finally the game was evaluated with the employees. The aim of this evaluation was to figure out whether the game stimulated to walk and triggered to increase physical activity in the employees’ daily life. The evaluation showed that the game does put people in motion and creates a immersive experience for the player. However, since the game was evaluated in a short time, the effect of the game on someone’s health awareness was difficult to measure. It is recommended to play the game more often and spread the activities over multiple weeks to provoke behaviour change. Also, the game could be part of a larger health program where employees set goals and get support to reach them. The game serves as a starting point where people can easily engage in to experience the benefits of physical activity on their mood and body. This experience can motivate them with setting personal health goals and eventually changing their behaviour. The deliverable of this project is not only the tangible game, but also a variety of insights about the employees of DZB. The company could use the framework for design as well as the 10 point of attention during future development of health related initiatives at DZB.

The assignment that is of issue in this graduation project elaborates on Shipright. Shipright is a digital tool meant to be used to capture insights for customer research purposes. It offers a workflow to collaboratively process and analyze feedback, in order to find insights about customers’ experiences with software products and possible directions to improve product design. Shipright is meant to be used by scale-up SaaS companies to conduct user research on their products’ users. SaaS (software as a service) is a software licensing and delivery model in which software is licensed on a subscription basis and is centrally hosted. The targeted SaaS companies are the small and medium businesses (SMBs = up to 100FTE / up until 10M revenue) and Mid-Market Businesses (100 – 500 FTE / 10M – 100M revenue). For outreach, though, the minimum of company size is set on 10 FTE. This allows start-ups to be included as a secondary target group. Among this target group, user research is defined as the collection of user feedback and the analysis of it to get to actionable tasks. All the actions that goes around product decisions, revolves around product teams with typical key members of Product Managers / Owners, UX-researchers, designers and developers. The problem encountered is that, though rich insights from user research is desired, the fast-paced environment of scale-up companies prevents them from being able to spend enough time and attention on user research. Shipright’s original design is able to help scale-up SaaS companies to collect and organize feedback data from their products’ users, and to turn these data into insights. But, users do not seem to fully understand the different steps to follow throughout this analytical process. Besides that, team collaboration is not supported yet.

This project aims to plant a seed in the minds of children to develop sustainable behaviour now and inspire an attitude of environmental stewardship for the future. Children grow up in a take-make-dispose world driven by consumerism. This world is characterised by the continuous production of new consumer products. This has a significant negative effect on the environment. For a sustainable future, people’s behaviour needs to change. Changing children’s attitude towards toy ownership has been identified as an opportunity to create this behaviour change. This lead to the following design challenge: How can I create an experience that engages children to change their behaviour towards toy ownership to inspire environmental stewardship? One of the most efficient ways to make products more sustainable is by extending product life. Extending product life is put into practice by having children pass on toys they have outgrown. By studying children using the context mapping method it was found that they find it difficult to let go of their unused toys. Extending product life and difficulty to let go are conflicting statements. For children below the age of five this is unavoidable, therefore the target group is children aged 5 - 6 as this is the youngest group possible to set in motion the desired behaviour change. Solution directions for the desired behaviour change were generated. The Toy on adventure concept was selected to further develop as this concept uses a narrative which allows for a perspective shift to occur with the child. A shift from a negative association (losing your toy), to a positive one (allowing your toy to go on adventure). In order to convince the child to participate in the concept, action tendency needs to be recognised. Multiple in-context interventions with the users were performed to find effective action tendencies that facilitate behaviour change. The following design elements were established: the power of growth, storytelling, negative emotions & pride. Using and integrating these design elements, the final design was created: Olli Play. Olli Play is an episodic storybook including action items and supporting props (play mat/bag & headdress) to make it easier for children to pass on toys they have outgrown. The design elements are embedded as follows: Episodic storytelling engages children with the experience of Olli Play. The concept of the power of growth is used in the narrative to make the letting go of toys part of growing up. Negative emotions are used to create a rich experience according to the theory of design for emotion. The use of pride provides the after the fact gratification necessary for the experience to have a lasting effect in order to inspire environmental stewardship. The interaction with the final design was tested in a three day testing session. The results showed that the intended effects were accomplished. As expected, the child experienced great difficulties with the thought of letting go toys at first. But as the interaction progressed throughout the days, the attitude of the child was transformed and the overall experience was perceived to be very enjoyable and the toys were gladly given away. The interaction also sparked interest in environmental stewardship. This way, Olli Play creates immediate sustainable behaviour and inspires the intended attitude of environmental stewardship.

In the past few decades, there has been an ongoing shift from work organised around individual jobs to team-based structures (Hansen, 2006; Edmondson et al., 2007; Bell et al., 2012). Teams can offer “greater adaptability, productivity, and creativity than any one individual can offer and provide more complex, innovative, and comprehensive solutions to organisational problems” (Salas et al., 2005). Also in design projects, complexity has increased and time to market decreased. Only teamwork allows companies to deal with the required efficiency and the increasing number of parallel activities. As the designers of tomorrow, it is therefore essential for design students to become comfortable with working in teams, and to learn how to effectively work in these teams. The central aim of this project was to research how design students can learn about teamwork. To answer this research question, an extensive literature review was done on the topics of teamwork, learning, and reflection. Furthermore, empirical research has been conducted, with research methods including interviews, pilot studies, generative sessions, and observation. The majority of the empirical research was conducted at the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at the Delft University of Technology. Literature combined with the findings from the empirical research suggests that students should develop situational awareness and learn to be adaptive in teams. To achieve this, the student should be educated throughout the curriculum on competences and skills in the areas of cooperation, coordination, communication, and self-awareness. Throughout the project is became clear that reflection was the means to turn teamwork experiences into valuable learning experiences. Various tools that facilitate reflection on teamwork within group design projects were designed and validated. Besides designing effective reflective exercises, two other challenges were identified to achieve meaningful reflection on teamwork: creating an emotionally supportive environment and boosting students’ motivation for doing the reflection. This project resulted in a product-service system Team Track. Team Track contains of a framework and three corresponding tools. The Team Track framework proposes a setup of a course in which students learn about teamwork, while doing a group design project. The framework can be used by course coordinators to embed teamwork education in their course. The key learning activities proposed by the framework are three facilitated workshops in which the student reflects on teamwork experiences and sets teamwork-related goals for the future. In between the workshop, the student completes modules that offer teamwork theory. The three Team Track tools support the learning activities proposed by the framework. The Team Bricks are a dynamic and physical representation of the team’s reflections and goals. The team’s personalised Course Calendar contains daily exercises that students have to complete. The online platform has multiple purposes: if offers a database with teamwork theory modules; students have their personal page on which their teamwork-related insights are captured; the student sets teamwork-related goals for himself, which are monitored through the platform. Finally, the framework and tools have been evaluated with experts on both teamwork and education. However, to fully validate the effectiveness, Team Track should be tested within a real life group design project.

We all want to keep balance in our lives, however, we don’t live statically, changes in our daily environments are inevitable and the need to know how to restore balance when faced with external stimuli is a lifetime effort. The long-term effects of stress, both physical and psychological, are of increasing concern with some even arguing that they constitute a health crisis. People often rely on their set of abilities and experience to solve this crisis, even so, there are many existing stress management techniques designed and tested to efficiently solve the most common sources of stress. But if effective stress management solutions exist, why do we find more people with anxiety, depression, and other health conditions which are known to be associated with prolonged periods of stress?. An intervention is proposed within this project, utilizing design methodologies and Self-Experimentation, that helps people enhance their stress abilities and Coping Behavior for their particular needs and life situations.

Hand-n-Hand App is a Location-based activation that addresses shoppers' uncertainty feelings in the grocery shopping experience. It does so by enabling grocery shoppers partners to be in contact while being in the supermarket. When delivering this activation, CPG brands are using Location-based activations as an enabler tool that allows them to tackle the different challenges that brands face. Thanks to the benefits that conceiving location-based activations as an enabler tool can deliver, sufficient arguments can be provided so as to encourage the deployment of location-based activations in the retail floor.

A graduation opportunity was given by the start-up Buyproxy who are developing a financial app. The assignment was formulated as designing a user centered solution for the application, focussing on user engagement, to trigger the desired behavior change. Based on user research within the analysis phase, it was concluded that there are four kinds of origins for financial problems: Lack of financial education, abrupt change, living in the now and yearn to belong. It was decided to focus on only one origin for the this project which resulted in millennials who are living in the now as the target group. Among other things, this group is characterized by yearning for instant gratification. A small research on their spending behaviour showed that feeling overconfident and misinterpretation of one’s balance leads to various ways of overspending. Therefore a design goal was formulated which would serve as the foundation for the creative process: “I want people to feel self-conscious and composed while spending money and/or making financial decisions”. As a result from several design and research activities, it was decided to revolve the design concept around strengthening delayed gratification as opposed to instant gratification. The challenge was in doing this without trying to change the users’ lifestyle completely. The new design guides the user to shortly engage with creating future visions and reminds him/her of them while using the app (Flashforwards), in order to convey financially effective decisions. The main functionality of Buyproxy’s app namely, budgeting is now served as a tool instead of the main focus of the app. Throughout the entire experience of using the app, it aims to influence the decisions of the user without imposing limitations or rules. In addition, the concept contains usability adjustments mostly for using budgets and doing payments, which are more tailored to the behavior of the target group. In more detail, the solution entails a budgeting system that is optimized for millennials living in the now. Particular in-app and automated actions trigger a Flashforward to appear. Besides the visual reminder of the future self, they also show financial feedback to encourage the user to make the right financial decisions. Based on the results from an evaluation test it can be concluded that the main functions and interactions of the new design, concerning budgeting, are an improvement of the current app and relevant for the targeted user.

This master thesis report is the result of a six-month-long graduation project for the Design for Interaction master track at the TU Delft. The goal of this project is to improve the interaction between teenage girls and sexualisation on social media. It does so by generating awareness and empowering them to avoid negative influences that affect them on a personal level. Teenagers grow up surrounded by technology. They live by social media, an environment in which they are constantly exposed to sexualised content and behaviours. Sexualisation occurs when a person’s value comes only from their sexual appeal or behaviour, to the exclusion of other characteristics. Exposure to big amounts of sexualised content and reactions online influences teenagers. They reproduce such behaviours, unconsciously post content that can be sexualised, and learn to believe sexualising is the norm. They are also not capable nor experienced to deal with the consequences of their content being sexualised. Therefore, I identified an opportunity to design an intervention that proposes a solution to those issues. The Sexualisation Dialogue is a program consisting of an educational plan, the Learning Journey, and two tools to educate and empower teenage girls in their interactions with sexualisation on social media. The Learning Journey proposes weekly and monthly sessions for secondary school students, where they reflect and discuss sexualisation, sexualised contents and reactions, posting content, feeling empowered, and other topics. Through exercises teenagers learn to be aware and reflective when interacting with social media content. The two tools, the Awareness Sticker and Power-App, help the teens apply the learned lessons in practice. The Awareness Sticker, placed on the back of their phones, prompts a reflection moment at the time of sharing content, to think about one’s reasons for posting and how people could react. The Power-App promotes the use of stickers and hashtags to feel empowered by communicating how they feel about themselves and the content they post. The design was field tested with twelve teenage girls, and evaluated with two educators. The Sexualisation Dialogue shows promise to generate awareness about sexualisation among teens, to inspire a reflective attitude in their interactions with social media and to help them feel empowered and in control. Although further testing is required to evaluate and completely detail all aspects of the design, it shows potential to fulfil the design goal. The Learning Journey should be evaluated in its entirety and the two tools fully developed and tested to assess their effect over an extended period of time. This project followed a human- and society-focus. I arrived at the final design after multiple rounds of field research and design activities including a field study with the target group, contextmapping sessions and evaluations with experts. The domain of this project is complex, and involving multiple stakeholders has made the process richer and the insights more comprehensive. In conclusion, the knowledge gained throughout the project, and the results obtained from the field test indicate that The Sexualisation Dialogue is a good intervention to tackle the issues of social media sexualisation. After following the final recommendations and evaluating the remaining elements of the design, The Sexualisation Dialogue should be ready to be implemented into the context successfully.

Food, not only exist as a source of energy and nutrition to human beings, but also gives emotional comfort and carries cultural values in people’s daily life. Thus, the consumption of food is no longer related to fulfilling the need of hunger, but also as a way to deal with human emotions, facilitate social bondings, celebrate cultural events and etc. Improper way of consuming food can result in negative consequences in people’s health condition, such as getting overweight and obese, as well as many other types of diseases. To help people manage their own eating behavior, food-tracking tools were designed to keep a record of people’s food intake, as a reference to access their eating and for themselves to make changes accordingly. How do we design a food tracking tool that can support people to collect meaningful data around their eating behavior and reflect on them in an engaging way? From the literature research and user research great insights were drawn on the current experience of using food-tracking tools. Based on that, through iterative developing, an mobile application design was detailed and evaluated. The project aims to provide a new perspective on how people can manage their eating behavior by self-tracking food they eat and the related influencing factors. The idea behind it is to empower them in discovering how the implicit reasons are repeatedly affecting the way they eat, environmentally and psychologically, rather than to regulate people to follow specific diet rules.

This graduation project starts from the big scope of weight stigmatisation on social media. At the beginning of research, primary research about weight stigma and social media was conducted to collect background knowledge and form an initial scope for further exploration. Explorative research was conducted to map out the situation and problems of weight stigmatisation on social media. Then the project scope was refined as weight stigma internalisation in the context of fast fashion, and focuses on the problem that female social media users internalise weight stigma when shopping for fast fashion products. In the next step, I did user research to better understand how do social media influence people in their daily life, and how do people cope with stigmatising information. Then I did context research to understand the collaboration of social media and fast fashion (social shopping), and the internalising circle of weight stigma was concluded from the research. Based on the research findings about social media and fast fashion, this design should enable young social media female users to be aware of the subtle but prevalent stigmatising contents, and therefore avoid internalising stigma, in which way a more supportive environment could be built for more people. With clear design goal and qualities defined, the design starts with making use of the relevant elements in the whole shopping experience, including online interactions and in-store experience. The concept is developed through user- participatory iterations and evaluations. The final concept is a trans-media experience aiming to make the user encourage them to embrace the body shape diversity actively, and aware of the stigmatising environment on social media. Finally the evaluation was conducted to validate if the concept fulfilled the design goal and reach the interaction qualities. A workable prototype and video were used to facilitate the evaluation online and offline.

This project deals with the creation of mechanisms for self-assessment in work-from-home (WFH) environments to enhance people's satisfaction. The core of the project lies in increasing WFH satisfaction by incorporating self-experimenting into work and family activities. This relies on the determinants of satisfaction and how homeworkers relate to personal satisfaction during these days of forced working-from-home. Based on the challenges of work-from-home satisfaction, the project explains the idea of a shift ritual, and how a design intervention can enable, stimulate, guide, and support homeworkers to use the ritual to achieve satisfaction. This concept is facilitated using a physical design for day to day use in the home-work environments, thereby providing homeworkers the option to easily switch between work and private activities and also feel accomplished for their daily tasks.