Development
Throughout my master degree I developed myself as designer within the expertise areas as defined by the TU/e Industrial Design department, by following courses and doing projects. Click on one of the Expertise Areas to read more about my development:
Expertise Areas
User & Society (US) and Math, Data & Computing (MDC) are my main expertise areas, in which I specialized. I used the other expertise areas Business & Entrepreneurship (BE), Creativity & Aesthetics (CA) and Technology & Realization (TR) as supporting expertise areas to help me make responsible technology understandable, feasible, and fitting for the context.
The expertise areas therefore strengthen one another: US gives me direction by understanding people, their context and values, while MDC helps to understand technological systems that increasingly shape or will shape these contexts. Through a human-centered design process with a mixed perspectives approach, I combine both.
CA and TR give me the ability to make insights from US and MDC tangible, allowing me to translate abstract understandings of behaviors and data into prototypes, interfaces and experiences that can be discussed or tested with users or stakeholders. Connecting to BE, in which I actively involve stakeholders to consider what value a design adds, how it can be implemented and exist within company or organization.
Courses & Projects
Below you can see an overview of all my activities during my master degree. However, especially CDR, UETP, DED, DwAAI, M2.1 and FMP project were important in my learning process. It shaped me to become a human-centered, data and technology aware, critical designer.
