Ir. J.W. Hoftijzer
Ir. J.W. Hoftijzer
Publications
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2024
Democratizing design, by designing for DIY
J.W. Hoftijzer
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2023
A framework model for facilitating do-it-yourself design
Jan Willem Hoftijzer / David Keyson
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2023
Democratizing design
the development of a ‘Design for Do-It-Yourself’ Framework
J.W. Hoftijzer -
2023
Teaching 'how to sketch visual stories' to a professional audience
A Taxonomy of Visualisation Strategies
Jan Willem Hoftijzer / H.M. Carelsberg / Mark Sypesteyn -
2022
New collaborative workflows - immersive co-design from sketching to 3d cad and production
Mauricio Novoa Munoz / Bryan F. Howell / Jan Willem Hoftijzer / José Manuel Rodríguez Díaz / Wendy Zhang / Nikolaj Kramer
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Prizes
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1994
IDE Lustrum Design Award 1994
An eye-opener in laminate, design competition
Design Competition
Research
Dissertation working title: 'Design for Do-It-Yourself / DIY product design'
My research addresses the topic of ‘Design for DIY’; the ‘new Do-It-Yourself’ . Compared to the customary definition of design, in which the professional designer and client company decide what to bring to the market, Do-It-Yourself (DIY) product design promises the opposite. Technology advancements, combined with people’s natural tendency to employ and express his/her creativity, to participate, have created a basis that stimulates today’s DIY product design. DIY product design is more feasible than ever, given the availability of modelling software, and new ‘scale-free’ production tools and platforms helping to 3d-print or laser-cut one-off objects (Anderson 2011). Many of today's developments and research sources from various fields confirm the evidently positive consequences DIY product design could have. Two questions are of major importance to the field of industrial design: (1) how - as a designer or as design educational institute - to anticipate these ‘democratizing’ (technological and social) changes, and (2) how to facilitate people in designing and making their own product (to DIY). For more information, please contact me.