Industrial Design Engineering

Bachelor Assignment

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Kara, I.S. (Irem)

From understanding to solutions: understanding the experience of a client with PIMD through designing a co-design toolkit for formal and informal networks

At: HAN

Within this thesis a co-design toolkit is designed to be used in the PIMD context. This context consists of the client wit PIMD, and their formal and informal network. Both these networks have dierent types of information available that can be useful when adapting existing technologies to make it more tting to the client, or when designing solutions for the client. Insights are gathered by codesigning with this design triangle, and implementing these insights in the co-design toolkit. Besides gathering insights about co-design this thesis looked at how the experience of the client could be understood, and it resulted in creating more awareness. This research is done within the overarching Helpende Hand research. The results consisted of insights into the process and the toolkit.

Exam date: 13-01-2023