Jennifer Vlieland
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A product in itself has no meaning. It is the user that assigns a value to it. A product may seem useful and/or beautiful according to its designer. But what is a product worth if it does not fulfill the (intended) user’s needs?
As a designer I like to design products for and with the user. You can always try to empathize with a person, but you will never be that person. I like to see the user as the expert by experience who I like to let him/her share his/her knowledge with me and by whom I like to get inspired.
Through the years I developed a special interest – I like to call it my passion – in designing products for healthcare. During my life I have seen many diseases among my loved ones. Due to these experiences I gained a lot of appreciation for healthcare professionals.
In my opinion improving healthcare is something we, the whole society, can do together. Designing products for healthcare is my way, as an industrial design engineer, to contribute to innovation in healthcare and thereby to the quality of a person’s life. -
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Master of Science (MSc) Design for Interaction, Industrial Design EngineeringDelft University of Technology2012 - 2014Specialization: Medisign (Design of products in healthcare) During this Master's program I did projects in collaboration with: - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek hospital / Dutch Cancer Institute - Erasmus MC - Biomet & Reinier de Graaf - Pieter van Foreest - Medicine Men (graduation internship) Besides these healthcare design projects I also worked half a year on a project in collaboration with Senz° Umbrellas BV.
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Bachelor of Science (BSc) Industrial Design EngineeringDelft University of Technology2006 - 2012
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VWO, GymnasiumInterconfessionele Makeblijde College, Rijswijk1999 - 2006
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Interaction Designer (Graduate Intern)Medicine MenFeb 2014 - Nov 2014 (9 months)Ԑmma is a smart medication managing and monitoring platform, which supports chronic patients to improve their therapy adherence (for more information, visit www.get-emma.com). As an interaction design intern I designed the Ԑmma smartwatch app interface for the Pebble smartwatch.
During this project I conducted several UX and usability researches (interviews, diaries, online enquiries and a focus group). The outcomes of these researches have been used as input during the design iterations.
By using this patient-centered design approach and involving the user in an early stage of the design process, I was not only able to design a product for the patient but also with the patient.
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