About Jasper van Kuijk MSc
Jasper is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering (TU Delft), studying usability in the development of electronic consumer products. The aim of his study is to determine what factors in product development practice determine the usability of electronic consumer products, such as mobile phones, mp3-players and washing machines. The results of his research provide insight on how product development companies should setup their development process and organization if their goal is to develop usable products.
Jasper is also the author of ‘the product usability weblog’ (www.uselog.com) where he writes about consumer product usability. On this weblog you’ll find examples of products with good and poor usability, usability studies, summaries of interesting papers, and news and events.
At the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Jasper works in the ID-StudioLab, a hotbed of design researchers, research designers, design educators and a lot of other hybrids.
He was educated as an Industrial Design Engineer at TU Delft, where he specialized in human-product interaction. He did an internship at the usability group of Ericsson Mobile Communications in (Lund, SE). His graduation project took place at Philips Research Media Interaction Group (Eindhoven, NL), in the Ambient Intelligent Lighting project, which (among others) led to the Philips Ambilight television. In this project he developed the InfoLight, a device 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. After two years he returned to IDE to start as a PhD candidate. Besides doing design research, Jasper is a (semi-professional) stand-up comedian.