Posts tagged as ‘Prototyping’
Monday, October 26th, 2009
There’s a reason why Delft is ranked as the 15th best engineering university in the world, and god, you gotta love them for that!
In Australia, only a crash 3 weeks before the start of the race managed to keep Nuna 5 from being the top dog of the World Solar Challenge so far… After a speedy crash recovery operation, we’re still third by the second day of racing and breathing down the neck of second placed University of Michigan. But watch out Tokai University (leaders so far) ’cause the Nuna team went to Australia to claim their rightful place and beat the competition for the 5th time in a row.
[UPDATE: As of October 27th, Nuna 5 has already surpassed the car from the University of Michigan, so Tokai is next!]
And back in Delft, the Design and Engineering Award is underway with some very, VERY interesting stuff going on.
On this post, you can find a couple of my favourite videos of some of the participating projects from our different faculties, which are just to show off a bit of why Delft is soooo cool 
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TAGS: Delft, Found on the net, Fun, Innovation, Prototyping, Research, Sustainability, TU Delft, Videos
Thursday, October 1st, 2009
Relevant Keywords:
Evaluating emotions, environments, services, consumer experience, online application, prototyping
Design Goal:
During my Design for Interaction MSc. graduation project a concept was developed that was deemed very interesting and promising for the potential assessment of emotions experienced towards a physical environment. This concept was later developed even further in collaboration with SusaGroup in order to bring it into the market as a fully functional instrument that can aid in emotional design research.
Methods Used:
- Early prototyping to perform user testing of working principle.
- Software development.
- Usability testing.
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TAGS: Cartoons, Design for Emotions, Evaluating emotions, Portfolio, Prototyping, Services, User Experience, User Interfaces, User Research
Friday, September 4th, 2009
Relevant Keywords:
MSc. Graduation project, evaluating emotions, services, consumer experience, hotels, mobile application, prototyping
Design Goal:
Various methods are available for measuring emotional responses elicited by products (design) or human-product interaction. Up to this point however, no instrument was available that could be used to assess emotional service experiences. The aim of the project was to extend the possibilities of assessing emotions to the realm of experiential service design. As a case study for the project, the focus was laid on the `hotel experience’, that is, the experience of a guest while staying at a hotel.
Project duration:
5 months (full time)
Methods Used:
- Thorough literature research to become acquainted with the project domain.
- Online survey to identify the most common types of emotions experienced by hotel guests and the stimuli associated with these experiences.
- Creative session organized with a panel of users and designers to generate ideas.
- Early prototyping to perform user testing of concepts.
- Creation of wire-frames and navigation flow-charts to define the software’s architecture.
- Hi-Fi prototyping of final concept.
- Usability testing.
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TAGS: Cartoons, Delft, Evaluating emotions, Innovation, Papers, Portfolio, Prototyping, Research, Services, User Experience, User Interfaces, User Research, Videos
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
So… it’s been a little over a week since I did the presentation for my Design for Interaction MSc. graduation project (Developing a tool to assess emotions elicited by services), and since I went off on a short one week vacation right after that, I didn’t have the time to post the video and some photos of the presentation during that time.
But as I promised some people, today I finally got back and had some spare time to upload everything. So above,you can take a look at the video of the presentation (takes about 45 minutes including the questions round). The file is quite big (around 500 Mb) because I couldn’t (more…)
TAGS: Cartoons, Delft, Design for Emotions, Evaluating emotions, Innovation, Lectures, Photos, Prototyping, Research, Services, User Experience, User Interfaces, Videos
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Hi everyone!
well, it’s almost here… on the 26th of June I will be giving the presentation for my Design for Interaction MSc. graduation project and I’d like to invite anyone interested in the subject to come along to the presentation.
It will be held at 3:45 pm at the faculty of Mechanical, Maritime & Materials Engineering (Mekelweg 2, 2628 CD Delft) of the TU Delft, in Room F.
In the mean time, wish me luck finishing up the project!
TAGS: Delft, Design for Emotions, Innovation, Lectures, Prototyping, Research, User Experience, User Interfaces
Friday, June 20th, 2008
Relevant Keywords:
Telecommunications, office environment, user research, usability testing, icon validity testing, redesign, office telephone
Design Goal:
The goal of this project was to evaluate the usability of the Alcatel-Lucent IP Touch 4018 office phone and to propose a re-design of the phone according to the findings of the performed tests. The team consisted of 6 Design for Interaction master students of the TU Delft working directly for Alcatel-Lucent, a global telecommunications corporation.
Project duration and team:
225 hours, 6 interaction designers (David Güiza Caicedo, Tine Lavrysen, Amine Rhord, Meike Mak, Steven Fokkinga, Marjolein Hartog)
Methods Used:
- Product analysis in terms of aesthetics and functionality
- Online user survey & interviews with experienced users to understand how they perceived the current phone.
- Usability tests of the current phone with novice and experienced users.
- Online icon validity test performed with an international sample of people.
- Interaction prototyping to assess the new interaction model proposed with the redesigned phone.
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TAGS: Innovation, Portfolio, Product Analysis, Prototyping, TU Delft, User Interfaces, User Research, Videos
Thursday, June 14th, 2007
Relevant Keywords:
Product development, household, manufacturing, technical research, technical development, prototyping
Design Goal:
As part of a design exercise at the TU Delft, we were given the task to use a 1928 patent of a cream whipper as a starting point for our design case. We were to use the patent as much as we could and translate the design of the cream whipper into our days in terms of production, assembly, materials, styling and features.
Project duration and team:
250 hours, 6 industrial design engineers (David Güiza Caicedo, Wouter Drost, Roos van Rhijn, Erik Jansen, Marie-Louise Brantjes)
Methods Used:
- Product analysis
- Technical research
- Brain writing
- lo-fi prototyping
- 3D modeling and Rapid prototyping
- User testing
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TAGS: Portfolio, Product Analysis, Prototyping, TU Delft, Videos
Monday, December 6th, 2004
Relevant Keywords:
Goth lifestyle, wall clock, free form-giving exercise, clay modeling
Design Goal:
As part of a free design exercise at the TU Delft we were asked to research a specific lifestyle (goths in my case) and to design a daily use product that would fit the form language of the given lifestyle.
Project duration:
75 hours
Methods Used:
- Interviews
- Sketching
- Clay modeling
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TAGS: Photos, Portfolio, Prototyping, TU Delft
