Did you know…?
Did you know… You can find us on our own website, dyl.utwente.nl, but also on Twitter (@designyourlives) and Instagram (@designyourlifetwente)? That our office at University of Twente is plastered with sticky notes? 471 at time of writing, to be exact. That we already completed 10 case studies? That we...
Design case spotlight: Denise Wien
Did you know that we already completed ten case studies to inform our Design Your Life method and toolkit? In this series we will highlight these case studies, starting with Denise Wien! Why case studies? In these case studies we are able to test different versions and/or different aspects...
Celebrating our next DYL-graduate: Arthur Panfilova
On Friday October 15th Arthur Panfilova presented his Bachelor thesis titled: ‘Redesign of a toolkit aimed toincrease the independence of young autistic adults’ at University of Twente. He can now call himself a BSc in Industrial Design Engineering! His thesis focussed on integrating the work of the first four...
Femke Wonink: our newest DYL-graduate
On Thursday October 14th, Femke Wonink succesfully defended her thesis with the title ‘TO BE AND TO BECOME AN EVERYDAY DESIGNER’. For her master assignment in Industrial Design Engineering (University of Twente), she answers the question: How can the concept of everyday design help YAA and their caregivers in selecting...
DYL participant presented at Autminds 2021
On Sunday 10th of October the Design Your Life project was presented during Autminds 2021. This conference is created, organised and presented by and for autistic people. During this meeting Design Your Life-project leader Jelle van Dijk provided an introduction, explaining the project to the group, consisting of 70+...
A successful multi-stakeholder meeting
On Monday 11th of October we held our third multi-stakeholdermeeting! During this meeting we presented our current progress in integrating all the insights from the 10 design cases and the previous stakeholder meetings into a new Design Your Life toolkit. The participants were a mixed group of autistic people,...