So we have this great new tool that has a big effect on the way we can design products. It sometimes stuns, it sometimes creates really disappointing work. In this post I’m trying to formulate how I think you could use the tool as a design student. Let »
Remembering all the things you need to do in everyday life can be hard. Especially when you have a mental disability. I am experimenting with a small app and widget to give some structure on certain points in the day to my daughter. But it is based on »
A story about “anger driven development”: For my daughter we use the services of a taxi company. The taxi may arrive in time, or perhaps be 40 minutes late or maybe it won’t arrive at all. To see at what time the taxi arrives, I have to use a website »
When listening to music sometimes a song is really appealing. I want to express my current love for a track. A common pattern for this is “favoriting” a song. However this dichitomy really does not work for me. I only just met this track , I don’t want »
We often discuss the term “Design gap” when giving lectures on design thinking. In this post, I explain where the term comes from and how you can use it in your design process. Karl Ulrich (2012) defines design as: “conceiving and giving form to artifacts »
For her graduation project Leonie Schäper created multiple research prototypes to investigate how athletes with a visual impairment can be supported to be active. In this post I will highlight some of the interesting tools she used while making prototypes »