Background

Jasper van Kuijk was educated as an Industrial Design Engineer at Delft University of Technology, where he specialized in human-product interaction. He performed an internship at the usability group of Ericsson Mobile Communications. His graduation project took place at Philips Research Media Interaction Group, in the Ambient Intelligent Lighting project, which (among others) led to the Philips Ambilight television. In this project he developed the InfoLight, a device that is intended to unobtrusively show information through light, movement and sound.

After graduation Jasper joined PARK advanced design management, a design management consultancy, where he was a consultant on design process innovation, design department organization and design strategy. He was also part-time marketing & communications advisor at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering (TU Delft). It was at this faculty that he started in 2005 as a PhD candidate on the project ‘Usability in Product Development’.

Furthermore

On ‘the product usability weblog’ (www.uselog.com) Jasper writes about consumer product usability. On this weblog you’ll find examples of products with good and poor usability, studies, summaries of interesting papers, and news and events relating to usability.
At the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Jasper is located at the ID-StudioLab, a collaboration of design researchers, research designers, design educators and a lot of other hybrids.

“It’s easy to want usability. It’s hard to make a usable product.”