I made this Showreel of my portfolio using Adobe After Effects CS4. It provides a quick impression of my work inside my portfolio.

The main product consists of three parts: the filtering module and two separate vibration motors. The signal of an mp3-player is filtered and the lower frequencies are translated to the two vibration motors. The vibration motors are attached to the wires of the ear buds and when you are listening to your favorite music you will really feel the beat. Want to feel more? Just detach one of the vibration motors and click it onto your shirt and the vibration will spread through your clothing. Not enough? Put on one of the specially designed sensible music garments, attach the vibration motor and feel the beat travel to your body. Music is perceived as being loud on a safe volume.

Sensible Music; Listening to music never felt this good.


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Value Vault
2010
Client: Philips consumer lifestyle

We proposed the value vault, a platform to translate the data about consumers’ experiences with products to actionable
information for the different stakeholders in the product development process to enable continuous learning. Within the value vault, data is analysed based on the requirements of these different disciplines,because actionable information has to be spoken in the language of the different stakeholders.
The value vault made it possible to store and quickly recoverinformation about what the consumer values and wants from a specific product or an entire product category. It made it possible to see if a product meets its value proposition and therefore what its strengths and weaknesses are. We developed a method to analyse and present this data and made the value vault to give an example how it could be implemented. A paper called “understanding consumer experience” was written for the PDMA conference of 2010 of which I was a co-author.

By Stefan Zwegers, Jeanine Kierkels and Frank de Jong


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Walk! 1
2008
Client: Adidas Innovation Team

Walk! is a shirt that was developed for women between 20 – 30 years old who want an active lifestyle. In the morning a pedometer module is attached to the shirt, which registers the amount of steps that are taken during the day. The pattern on the shirt consists out of 6 spheres. Pieces of the spheres are printed in thermo chromatic ink, which is ink that can change color. When a piece of thermo chromatic ink changes, a line is created between two spheres. The more steps are taken, the more spheres are connected. The wearer can therefore get an indication of the amount of steps taken by looking at her shirt.

I received an excellence verdict for this project and  both Walk! projects were displayed at the ID’09 exhibition during the Dutch Design week 2009 in Eindhoven. Furthermore the project has been featured on several blogs (e.g. Talk2myshirt), articles (e.g. Boletin de opportunidades innovadores para el Textil) and in the book “Metamorphosis “ by Elisabetta Cianfanelli together with professors of the University of Florence of the deparment of Industrial design.


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Project Walk! II
2009
Client: Adidas Innovation Team

After a succesful first iteration of the project Walk!  I continued with the project. In this version an older target group was chosen. A user evaluation of the first concept of Walk! with women of 30-45 years revealed the following essential values: Safety, Privacy, Pleasure, Enjoying life and Healthy. A second concept iteration of the pedometer shirt concept was conducted. The new concept uses lighting to provide the feedback. More steps equals more lit flowers. Furthermore the wearer can decide for herself if she wants to show her progress to the rest of the world or keep it private, by changing the way she wears the garment.

DoorM
2009
Client: Philips/ CitizenM hotels

I participated with a team in the Philips creative Challenge 2009. The concept our team designed was called DoorM. The concept lowers the threshold for CitizenM hotel guests to visit the shared living rooms, by triggering their curiosity through interactive spy holes; offering an abstract overview of these living rooms and activity, via blurred video and dampened sound.  The lights around the spyholes will slowly light up to attract the attention of the guest. Furthermore, DoorM showcases suitable living rooms based on the guests` preferences.

By Stefan Zwegers, Jan van der Asdonk, Guust Hilte, Loes Smits and Willem Knijnenburg


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Satoo
2008
Final Bachelor Project

I am a competition Taekwondo fighter and reaction speed is crucial for a fighter. I designed the Satoo, a product to individually train reaction speed. The user can choose between different auditory training programs that adapt their dificulty level to the fighters skills during the  session. Each difficulty level is represented by a color, giving the fighter immediate feedback about its progress during the training.

Klokje T-tijd (Clock T-Time)
2009
Hema Design competition

I  competed in the Hema Design competition 2009 which is a competition organised for Design students by the big Dutch company Hema. The assignment for 2009 was to make a a common product or material special again and give it a second life. I transformed the cup of a small wax candle, that is normally thrown away, into a little clock.