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INTRODUCTION

VISION

GOALS

ACTIVITIES

GROWTH

CONTACT

Achieved

The most goals I stated for this semester in my personal development plan are reached.

The assignment Designing Visual Information helped me to develop Form and Senses. I liked the classes about designing with graphics. An area new for me. I would have liked more lectures about interactive visuals. For the assignments in the competency area Integrating Technology I missed the link with design a little bit. I can see why technology is important and I have a better idea what it takes to integrate technology in design, but I would have liked to gain more knowledge about how technology influences design. What are changing factors? what do I have to take in account? The extra curricular activity, Arduino, was very helpful to get acquainted with the technology.

Future

During my masters I want to develop two areas of expertise.

I want to develop my expertise within the area of autonomous systems or products with a certain behavior. Why is it that autonomous systems behave the way they do? What influences this behavior? These are all questions that intrigue me. That’s why I will investigate this topic during my project this semester.

How people experience interaction with a product is another area of interest. I want to develop my user experience expertise. What makes a product a nice experience to the user? Probably it is a combination of things.

''I want to develop my expertise within the area of autonomous systems or products with a certain behavior.''

I believe that being a designer comes with responsibilities. My work needs to add value to society or the user. Only then I can be satisfied. I want to make people enjoy the little everyday moments in life. Not only distract them from problems they are having, but also solving real problems. For example, enable old people to move more. Maybe even connect people in the neighborhood, making them less lonely. Making a product or service that contributes to solving this problem would help a lot of people living a better life.

''Products that are smart enough to operate autonomously and adapt to their environment can make a contribution to society in a way that was not possible before.''

A good product is good on multiple levels.  A product that looks cute, but is not working properly is to me very tiresome. Quality throughout the product is something every designer should strive for. Also care about the parts that the user is not seeing.

My previous education is Industrial Product Design at The Hague University of applied sciences (hbo). I learned about design using the Delft-designmethod. This is the more traditional view on designing. The next few years I would like to learn more about Technology in products, because this topic was almost not included in my previous study and is becoming more important in Design. I don’t need to become a programmer, but at least understand what it means to integrate technology in products. The reason why this topic is important for me personally, is because I love intelligence in products.

Especially autonomous systems and products that are operating by themselves and have grown beyond human control. Products that are smart enough to operate autonomously and adapt to their environment can make a contribution to society in a way that was not possible before.

For example a mobility system that makes use of autonomous cars in the neighborhood to transport people over short distances. Since cars are not used for something like 90 percent of the day, it makes sense to put them to use. It helps connecting less mobile people, perhaps making them less lonely and live a better life.

Welcome to my first showcase.

I am a pre-master student at Eindhoven University of Technology.

I would like to show you my vision as a designer, my activities and the gained development.

Bram Rutten

Bram Rutten

s140795

b.rutten@student.tue.nl

Awareness

Depth

Expertise

Also part of my identity is being a rower.  I am selected for the first years team. The team of five people and one steer is training six times a week. I am a rower since the age of fourteen, but never at this level. You have to make sacrifices, when you want to perform like this. The rowing provides structure, but in the evenings there is no time for studying and I missed it during busy periods.