User:Pei-yin chao

MA Industrial Design graduate from Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. The course’s curriculum stem from new focal points of design industry. It trained me in designing intelligent products and services, and it got me acquaint with hands-on experience prototyping.

As design intern at the MIT Media Lab Cambridge, Affective Computing Group I further shaped my interest and skills in designing computed intelligence.

My MA graduation project for Gaggenau Kitchen appliances, focused on developing a suite of near future kitchen appliance concepts that improves cooking experience. Entailing an ethnographic design approach, heavily involving i.e. chef cooks, to fuel design iterations with rich insights on concept quality.

After graduating, I worked as a design lecturer/tutor at University, shortly followed with a position in Philips Design’s New Designers Program.

This select two-year program aims at gathering global young design talent to train them towards a senior leading position within the company. During these two years, I accumulated experience in professional product-, interaction- and service- design throughout the different departments of Philips Design. (RD&I, Healthcare, Ambient EXPerience, Lighting, Probes and Consumer Lifestyle) The program further tailored my passion for designing the behavioral/dynamic qualities of a product or service and my skills in experience prototyping.

Adopting a hands-on and user-centered design approach, I am engaged in designing new product- and service- propositions that resonate new technologies, cultural shifts and real people needs. Where my goal is to create propositions that are genuine relevant and valuable for people.

Specialties:User Experience Design, Interaction Design, Visual Design, Experience Prototyping (Apple iOS, FL Actionscript 3, Processing, Arduino, Phidgets), Concept