During my Masters I did one last group semester project. With two other students, I designed and 3D printed a light bulb in order to improve the clarity of speech during conversations at the dinner table. This way hard of hearing can be more engaged in social communicative situations. As our client, Eriksholm Research Center… Read More
PIP – Playful Interactive Pins
PIP is the result for the master course Interactive Materiality, which I did with a fellow student. Interaction is becoming more and more flat and lateral because of the massive use of touchscreens. The shape-change of the design, facilitated by the pins, can be used as a haptic interface with ‘3D pixels’ to enrich these… Read More
Myshell speaker
An emotionally durable shell speaker that was presented at the Dutch Design Week 2019. Read More
Internship Material Sense LAB
I did my internship at Material Sense LAB in Eindhoven. I focussed on the combination of materials and sustainability, since that was a still undiscovered part of my vision. I especially achieved my goals to broaden my database of materials, put interaction into practice, and gain understanding of all the aspects of circularity. Besides, I… Read More
AquAware towel hook
I did a multidisciplinary design project concerning light in a group of five. I was introduced to information decoration or peripheral interaction, which is a way to display information in a decorative and unobtrusive way in the environment, in the periphery of our attention. This was an eye-opening addition to my vision. The AquAware make… Read More
Pettow pillow
In a group of five, I did my first design research project with a qualitative user test by means of two semi-structured observations. This project was for the client Pleyade, a caring home. I designed Pettow, a pet-like pillow to reduce anxiety for people with dementia. During this project I learned to manage a project… Read More
Slider alarm clock
Together with three others I designed an intuitive alarm clock. Looking at the design, you first see the relief, and that is also the first step of setting the time; the amount of sleep is represented by the dents of the two sliders. Then, the indent on the side of the middle block becomes visible,… Read More
Jukebox FLORA
Another small project I did with a fellow student, is the Jukebox FLORA, which was for the course Creative Electronics. It works like this, when hovering your hand above the flower of Bare Conductive paint, you hear different tones, as you can see in the video. During the project I found out that I could… Read More