Education guide 'Eindhoven designs' - Technische Universiteit ...

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Deliverables
The total of all deliverables gives an
impression of both the qualities of the
designer as well as his/her vision on
designing. The deliverables are strongly
linked to the process and competency
areas. When looking at the different
deliverables, the student can find
patterns that indicate his identity. For
example, John Helmes’ overview of his
projects over the last years shows a clear
preference for subtle interaction with
small devices that try to enable or capture
intimate moments. For example, ReVive is
a small autonomous, organically shaped
robot, which can add lotion to treat acne
on a person’s back. It finds its own path
to cover the area that needs treatment.
Fida is a small spherical object that
allows a child to capture emotionally
intense moments and communicate
emotions indirectly to the parent. The
emotional message takes the form of a
spoken message, a colour, a personal
note or a combination of the three. It can
be left in various (personal) places, thus
providing a platform to trigger intimate
communication in both positive and
negative situations. Finally, the Other
Brother is a little robot-like device that
captures sounds, images and video of
spontaneous moments in the course of
everyday life. It is triggered by sound
and rotates towards the sound source
to capture footage. The Other Brother is
designed as a situated, tangible object
for life-time capturing purposes and
enables people to re-experience these
moments in a playful way. Seeing the
relationships between his competency
development and deliverables helped
him to formulate his Master’s graduation
project and sharpen his identity,
which he is further developing in his
current position at Microsoft Research
Cambridge.
Attitude
The attitude necessary to become a
designer with an ID, TU/e flavour is not
substantially different from the attitude
needed for a single activity. In all cases,
the student will need an active and
responsible attitude. If a student is not
pro-active and doesn’t take things into
his/her own hands, he/she will have a
hard time in Eindhoven. In general,
all coaches and experts at ID are more
than willing to support the student in
the learning process, but the student
needs to be in control. In general, this
means that a coach or lecturer puts more
time into relatively good students than
in relatively poor students, which is the
opposite in most traditional learning
approaches.