Positive Design Reference Guide now available as PDF
The Positive Design Reference Guide was published in 2015, and has been available since then through print-on-demand and for online viewing. Now we also have a PDF version available, which…
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Nathan op den Kelder successfully finalized her master thesis
The power of placebo – Designing for contextual healing: Fostering placebo mechanisms by increasing patients’ belief in physiotherapeutic hand treatments
moreA new column article out: Me & My Smartphone: A Study into the Well-being Paradox of Phones (Design by Matthijs de Koning)
Me & My Smartphone: A Study into the Well-being Paradox of Phones Design by Matthijs de Koning Download (Dutch | English) Reference Desmet, P.M.A. (2019). Ik en mijn Smartphone: Een…
morePetra Salaric successfully finalized her master thesis
Design for taboo of menstruation and well-being of women in India
moreWellbeing by Design: Teaching Practices & Ethical Reflections
– One-day conference – April 5, 2019 – TU Delft Teaching Lab – 09:00 – 17:00 Call for participation We invite you for a one-day conference on “Design for Wellbeing…
moreDesign for Happiness Deck – now available in hard copy
After the successful launch of the digital version of the Design for Happiness Deck, it is now also available to order in hard copy! If you want the beautiful printed…
moreEmma Heijerman wins Thesis Prize
The Dutch national Hoormij Foundation awards a biennial thesis prize for students from all faculties and universities of applied sciences in the Netherlands who have written a master’s thesis in…
moreThe Journal “RChD: Creación y Pensamiento”—Special Issue on Emotional Design
The Journal “RChD: Creación y Pensamiento” is a bi-annual, non-profit periodical published by the Design Department of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the Universidad de Chile. Its objective…
moreBrave New Tech at Health Supported by Technology
On June 1st, Dr. Anna Pohlmeyer will give a keynote presentation at the Conference “Health Supported by Technology”, organized by the Center for eHealth & Wellbeing Research of the University…
moreGlobal Dialogue for Happiness + World Government Summit
Dr. Anna Pohlmeyer has been invited to the Global Dialogue for Happiness and the World Government Summit to explore the potential of Design for Happiness for workplace environments and public…
moreDoctoral thesis defence of Jay Yoon
On Thursday 11 January, Jay Yoon successfully defended his thesis ‘Escaping the emotional blur: Design tools for facilitating positive emotional granularity’. The doctoral committee of the thesis was: Prof. Pieter…
moreSymposium: What can the social sciences learn from design research?
Three leading researchers in the fields of design, human-computer interaction, and psychology presented their latest research and share their insights into the interplay between social sciences and design research: prof.…
moreInterview with Pieter Desmet on Positive Design in Juist Magazine
The November issue of Juist Magazine published an interview with Pieter Desmet (in Dutch). In the interview he reflects on his research, his driving forces, and his academic challenges: “we…
moreDesign Salon on Design + Happiness + Futures
From October 20-22, a dozen invited, international guests from varied disciplines will join members of Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan, in Midtown Detroit. Anna Pohlmeyer has…
moreWorkshop on Body Perspectives
How do you feel and think about your body characteristics? How do others feel and think about your body characteristics? As we see, exchange and relate to many different people…
moreMCE conference: Not more, but more meaningful technology
Anna Pohlmeyer has been invited to give a talk at this year’s MCE conference. MCE is the largest Central and Eastern European technology conference, held in Warsaw for the past…
moreDesigner Manifesto – Anna Pohlmeyer at Design Matters
For the 20th edition of Design Matters at Pakhuis de Zwijger in Amsterdam on February 23, design journalist Jeroen Junte will host an evening on the topic ‘Designer Manifesto’ and…
moreDilemma-driven Food Design
Do you want to listen to an online keynote that brings together dilemma-driven design and food design? Watch online either on the website of the Third International Conference on Food…
moreWebsite of Dilemma-Driven Design
Delft Institute of Positive Design hosts many unique research and design projects. Dilemma-driven design is one of these projects that started in 2011 and has been growing. There is now…
moreDesigning for happiness: A workshop about symbolic meaning
At the Design and Emotion Conference 2016, a 90-minute workshop was conducted to accompany a short paper and a poster, aiming to communicate Mafalda’s research on happiness-related symbolic meaning, and disseminate the…
moreSpecial Issue on Positive Computing
On July 4, “Psychology of Wellbeing” published a special issue on Positive Computing. For that issue Pieter Desmet acted as guest editor, in collaboration with Rafael Calvo, Dianne Vella-Brodrick, and…
moreDIOPD @ DRS conference
DIOPD hosted a Positive Design workshop (June 27) at the DRS conference (Brighton, June 27-30). The workshop focused on design for well-being, discussing theory, tools, and techniques. Participants used the material on…
moreDIOPD presented prototypes at the PhD day of IDE, TU Delft
This year’s PhD Day was built under the theme ‘Flip the faculty’, allowing the PhD candidates to discuss, confront, and predict the future of research at IDE. DIOPD’s PhD candidates…
moreLaunch of the Spanish edition of the Positive Design Reference Guide
During the 29th version of the International Book Fair in Bogota, Colombia (19 Apr – 2 May), the Spanish edition of the Positive Design Reference Guide by Simon Jimenez, Anna…
moreGuest Lecturer at INTEC in The Dominican Republic
Santiago De Francisco Vela was invited to present his project “The meaningfulness of saving money” at INTEC, located in the Dominican Republic. INTEC is a technological institute that has an…
moreDIOPD presents the design tool ‘emotionPrism’ at the Mind the Step exhibition during the Dutch Design Week
During the Dutch Design Week (Sat 17 Oct – Sun 25 Oct), DIOPD participates in the exhibition ‘Mind the Step’. Jay Yoon, Pieter Desmet and Anna Pohlmeyer will show a…
moreDIOPD contributes to the launch event of the Dutch Positive Psychology Journal
On October 15, the Tijdschrift Positieve Psychology (Positive Psychology Journal; in Dutch) will be launched with a dedicated conference on Positive Psychology. DIOPD has been invited to organise a session on Positive Design at…
moreDIOPD contributes to the 2015 Rotterdam Route of Happiness
The DIOPD has been invited to contribute to the “2015 Rotterdam Route of Happiness.” For two days, this route focuses on the happiness of all Rotterdam inhabitants with a host…
moreThe positive design award
The Positive Design Award Are you a creative? Do you and /or your team design the best new Positive Product? Do you want to win the Joolz Positive Design Award of…
moreHappy Cities
On May 20, Pieter Desmet gave a keynote lecture at the Spring Event of the Dutch Regional Science Association. The theme of the event was “Happy Cities.” The event was…
moreDesign for symbolic meaning that supports user happiness
University of Twente organizes CuriousU, a summer school on health and happiness that aims to develop an understanding of how to improve health and well-being through technological interventions. The courses…
morePositive Design continues to inspire! InnovationLab and DIOPD collaborated on a project called Happy City
InnovationLab is a project designed as a laboratory in which bachelor students, PhD researchers, and experts from various fields can think about and design for the “city of the future”,…
moreLaunch of the Positive Design Reference Guide
On March 20, the United Nations ‘International Day of Happiness’, Simon Jimenez, Anna Pohlmeyer, and Pieter Desmet launched the Positive Design Reference Guide. The guide provides anyone who is interested…
moreCRISP#4 magazine “Well, well, well, …”
The magazine of the Creative Industry Scientific Programme CRISP dedicated an entire issue to the topic of Design for Well-Being. Anna Pohlmeyer and Pieter Desmet were invited as guest editors…
more‘From User Experiences to Human Experiences’ at UX week 2014
On September 12, Anna Pohlmeyer gave an invited main stage presentation at the international conference ‘UX week 2014’ in San Francisco. Since 2003, UX week is a yearly conference that…
morePositive Design Day at ECPP 2014
Positive psychologists sometimes advise that not too much ought to be expected from the contributions to subjective well-being made by consumer products. ‘Positive Design’ challenges this view. It was a…
moreWorkshop on Dilemma-driven Design!
9th International Design & Emotion Conference will take place in Colombia this year, where practitioners, researchers and industry leaders will meet and exchange knowledge and insights concerning the field of…
moreSpecial Issue on ‘Design for Subjective Well-Being’
Together with Jodi Forlizzi from Carnegie Mellon University, Pieter Desmet and Anna Pohlmeyer co-edited a special issue on ‘Design for Subjective Well-Being’ in the International Journal of Design. The issue…
morePositive Design Day | Exhibitions
Happy Trolley | Carlita Kooman & Pieter Desmet The award ceremony for the happy trolley contest took place on May 24, during the Positive Design Day. The chair of the…
moreNew tools page online
Following our official launch on 24 May 2013, we have unveiled the new DIoPD tools page. Each of the tools are intended to assist in some aspect of Positive Design.…
moreNew project started: Applying Reversal theory to redesign the air travel experience
On 1 March, three graduation students started a 6-9 months project in which they will apply Reversal theory to design a better in-flight experience for KLM, with a special focus…
moreCall for Papers I Special Issue on “Designing for Subjective Wellbeing”
Pieter Desmet, Anna Pohlmeyer, and Jodi Forlizzi (Carnegie Mellon University) are acting as guest editors of a special issue on “Designing for Subjective Wellbeing” in the International Journal of Design. Full…
moreDesign Competition | Happy Trolley
Click for a larger view GENERAL INFORMATION All information about the competition will be provided through the DIOPD website only (www.diopd.org/happytrolley). All communication will be in English. An example trolley…
moreDelft Institute of Positive Design participates the Intensive Programme (IP) “Co-Constructing Healthy Experiences”
On behalf of the IDE Delft Institute of Positive Design (DIOPD), Pieter Desmet and Anna Pohlmeyer participated in the successful application of this IP project, which focuses on the (health and)…
moreDFI Graduation Assignment
The Delft Institute of Positive Design has got a new graduation assignment: Enhancing Happiness in Office Surroundings Introduction Office workers spend a substantial portion of their time in an office…
moreEmotion Videos
This year Gert Pasman together with Lenneke Kuijer and Rob Maas (BK) have been running the new Bachelor elective IO3045 “Video for Designers”, in which students are trained to understand, apply and experience the…
moreIDE Emotional Design involved in new format NOS ‘Journaal’
Two weeks ago, the NOS launched a new format set for their flagship news show – the Eight ‘O Clock News. The inspiration for these changes came partly from a…
moreCollaborate!
Would you like to understand how to develop products and services that contribute to the well-being of users? Would you like to have an impact on happiness? DIoPD offers a…
moreNew postdoc researcher: Irene Kamp
After studying Industrial Design Engineering in Delft, Irene worked as a freelance designer on various comfort related projects. During her PhD project she worked at BMW in Munich and studied…
moreMoral Persuasion
TEDx Hogeschool Utrecht; Utrecht, Netherlands; November 8th, 2011 The first TEDxHU edition was held on the 8th of November on Moral Persuasion. Everyone is talking about doing good for others…
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