Design Your Life draws your attention to a research project by a student at the University of Twente: Stim4Sound, conducted by Yi Zhang. The goal of Stim4Sound is to design an interactive system that combines “stimming” or “fidgeting” with sound, which allows autistic and non-autistic people to interact without...

June 18th is neurodiversity pride day! This day is not about awareness, but about appreciation and (self)acceptance! We would like to invite you to join us for the Neurodiversity Pride Day celebrations by NeuroEmergence. At this online event you can attend presentations by speakers like Thomas Armstrong, Neurodivergent Rebel...

And we are off again! The Design Your Life team is busy designing the second version of the toolkit. The picture below shows the results from our brainstorm sessions. In a few months, the toolkit will be ready to be tested on a larger scale than we have done...

After many months of case studies we are finally ready to present you with the first overall version of the toolkit! The toolkit consists of many activities divided over six design phases. Depending on the users’ personal interest, they choose which activities they want to do. The toolkit then...

Here in the Design Your Life team we use various essential tools to structure and perform our research. One of them is MURAL. This online whiteboard tool helps us to visualise information, identify underlying connections and discuss those connections in visual ways. One year ago we got in contact...

In October of 2021, Femke Wonink received her MSc Industrial Design Engineering for her Design Your Life (DYL) case study. Her DYL toolkit was inspired by the concept of everyday design, a form of design that emphasizes that the designing of artefacts does not end at the level of...

*Dutch below* From February till April 2022 the course project ‘Designing for Specific Users’ will take place. During this project, students from Industrial Design Engineering at University of Twente will collaborate with people with a disability to design a product that empowers them in their day-to-day life. However, we...

On January 19th, 2021, Jamsijn Sagel received her BSc Industrial Design Engineering for her Design Your Life-design case. Her design case was a pilot for the Design Your Life project. For her bachelor assignment, Jasmijn created ‘Good Trip!’: a co-design toolkit for young autistic adults and their carers to...

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...