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...

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...

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+...

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,...

[Dutch version below] On October 10th two participants of the Design Your Life project will present their experiences using the Design Your Life method alongside Jelle van Dijk at the Autminds 2021 conference. This conference will take place online and this presentation will be held in Dutch. Find the...

The first published paper about the Design Your Life project was awarded with the Best Paper Award of the 10th International Conference on Design, User Experience and Usability, which took place in 2021. The paper “Design Your Life: User-Initiated Design of Technology to Support Independent Living of Young Autistic...

Welcome to the website of the Design Your Life project! Here we will update you on the current activities within the project, share our design cases and showcase our results. Join us as we research, design, test and redesign the Design Your Life toolkit with the help of our...