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Delft Design Stories

13 March 2025

Valedictory interview with Peter Vink: “I'm continually surprised by what designers know”

Professor of Environmental Design Peter Vink has spent decades working on the development of new products and environments that have a proven effect on comfort, performance, and health. What are the highlights of his career? How are the challenges of ergonomics and aviation evolving? Where is industrial design going in the future? Find out in this interview. Following a special Symposium on Vehicle Comfort and Design, Professor Vink gave his valedictory address at TU Delft on Friday 7 March 2025.

12 February 2025

Researcher and student collaborate to build pumptrack

Thursday afternoon, 23 January. The day is cool, the sun veiled, and the breeze fresh. There is more activity than usual in the square in front of TU Delft's Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering. Two undulating structures are lined up next to one another. They are being fastened together by two men – researcher Jelle Joustra and IPD MSc student Jesse Pupping. They are assembling a pumptrack, part of which is comprised of discarded wind turbine blades. ‘Today we are testing whether the structure holds up,’ Jesse says.

04 February 2025

User-centred design for ambulance assistance tool

Pressure on ambulance staff and healthcare providers is increasing as ambulances have to be dispatched more often, and sometimes unnecessarily. To help them determine when treatment is urgent, some hospitals in the Hollands-Midden region have started working on a prehospital consultation triage tool. For her SPD graduation project, designer Joska Stoorvogel compiled how this tool could be designed in a service blueprint, based on end-user requirements.

31 January 2025

A how-to guide for designing better digital health solutions

When it comes to managing health, more and more people are turning to digital health solutions. But despite technological advances, there are still certain challenges with using these tools. IDE PhD candidate Tingting Wang, together with her research team, has created a user-friendly, step-by-step guide that helps designers increase the quality of care in digital health by understanding, evaluating, and improving the digital patient experience.

15 January 2025

New vaginal speculum design might motivate women to go for health checkups

Around 35% of women experience shame, fear or pain linked to vaginal examinations. One of the causes is how the vaginal speculum tool is designed. That is why TU Delft graduate Ariadna Izcara Gual and researcher Tamara Hoveling designed a new speculum, called ‘Lilium’, with benefits for patients and health professionals and the environment. “I hope this design motivates woman to get their health checkup,” Ariadna says. The project is now seeking partners to take the innovation further.

08 January 2025

A human-centred design approach to self-driving vehicles

Self-driving vehicles are a hot topic amongst mobility experts. Some foresee a golden future. One with more possibilities for social interactions, safer roads, and fewer parking spaces allowing for more greenery. Others are more cautious, researching measures to ensure traffic safety. “Tech development is accelerating,” explains Nicole van Nes, professor at TU Delft. “It is important to align it with our societal goals and to make sure that safety is embedded. We need a user centred approach to achieve this.”

17 December 2024

Experimenting with multipurpose textiles

Look around you. What’s on your back? What are you sitting on? What’s hanging in the windows? You guessed it – textiles. They are all around us. But the textile industry has a significant impact on our environment. “What if we start using our textiles in a more interactive way. Would we use them longer?” wonders design researcher Alice Buso.

19 November 2024

Card game addresses sexism within police

IDE alumnus Noortje Kwakernaak visited two police stations to investigate the role of female officers there. During her visits, she was struck by the use of humour – much of it crude or sexist. To address the topic, and perhaps change behaviour, she developed a quartet card game that makes players reflect on these types of jokes.

Delft Design Stories

Read the stories of researchers and students at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, and discover the scientific questions on which they work and the solutions they present.

Valedictory interview with Peter Vink: “I'm continually surprised by what designers know”

Professor of Environmental Design Peter Vink has spent decades working on the development of new products and environments that have a proven effect on comfort, performance, and health. What are the highlights of his career? How are the challenges of ergonomics and aviation evolving? Where is industrial design going in the future? Find out in this interview. Following a special Symposium on Vehicle Comfort and Design, Professor Vink gave his valedictory address at TU Delft on Friday 7 March 2025.

Researcher and student collaborate to build pumptrack

Thursday afternoon, 23 January. The day is cool, the sun veiled, and the breeze fresh. There is more activity than usual in the square in front of TU Delft's Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering. Two undulating structures are lined up next to one another. They are being fastened together by two men – researcher Jelle Joustra and IPD MSc student Jesse Pupping. They are assembling a pumptrack, part of which is comprised of discarded wind turbine blades. ‘Today we are testing whether the structure holds up,’ Jesse says.

User-centred design for ambulance assistance tool

Pressure on ambulance staff and healthcare providers is increasing as ambulances have to be dispatched more often, and sometimes unnecessarily. To help them determine when treatment is urgent, some hospitals in the Hollands-Midden region have started working on a prehospital consultation triage tool. For her SPD graduation project, designer Joska Stoorvogel compiled how this tool could be designed in a service blueprint, based on end-user requirements.

A how-to guide for designing better digital health solutions

When it comes to managing health, more and more people are turning to digital health solutions. But despite technological advances, there are still certain challenges with using these tools. IDE PhD candidate Tingting Wang, together with her research team, has created a user-friendly, step-by-step guide that helps designers increase the quality of care in digital health by understanding, evaluating, and improving the digital patient experience.

New vaginal speculum design might motivate women to go for health checkups

Around 35% of women experience shame, fear or pain linked to vaginal examinations. One of the causes is how the vaginal speculum tool is designed. That is why TU Delft graduate Ariadna Izcara Gual and researcher Tamara Hoveling designed a new speculum, called ‘Lilium’, with benefits for patients and health professionals and the environment. “I hope this design motivates woman to get their health checkup,” Ariadna says. The project is now seeking partners to take the innovation further.

A human-centred design approach to self-driving vehicles

Self-driving vehicles are a hot topic amongst mobility experts. Some foresee a golden future. One with more possibilities for social interactions, safer roads, and fewer parking spaces allowing for more greenery. Others are more cautious, researching measures to ensure traffic safety. “Tech development is accelerating,” explains Nicole van Nes, professor at TU Delft. “It is important to align it with our societal goals and to make sure that safety is embedded. We need a user centred approach to achieve this.”

Experimenting with multipurpose textiles

Look around you. What’s on your back? What are you sitting on? What’s hanging in the windows? You guessed it – textiles. They are all around us. But the textile industry has a significant impact on our environment. “What if we start using our textiles in a more interactive way. Would we use them longer?” wonders design researcher Alice Buso.