Bättre Design

03/09/2024

Nu är det officiellt - hemflyttad med underbara Elin Jerklind Dybeck efter 3 spännande år i Amsterdam. Nu bor vi i Göteborg igen och förra veckan började jag på fantastiska Boid! Blir en spännande tid framöver :)

Exciting times ahead! 🚀Proud to have joined Boid in developing useful, sustainable and clever products + services - bringing my expertise on 3D-printing and…

14/02/2023

Exciting times for the next-generation water heater! 🚰

The first test bed for my metal 3D-printing innovation has been produced. Possibilities are endless for making smaller products that waste less water and energy. Its design can be modified to be integrated in faucets, heat water for espresso machines, etc. By using water-saving faucets from Swedish Altered the patent-pending innovation can reduce embodied and operational footprints.

The test bed has been built by the great team at IHP AB by funding from Almi Väst. Thanks to Andreas Rexander and David Lundgren for your support.

Last year I was selected for the biggest EU-funded project for metal 3D printing in collaboration with CSEM, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Chalmers University of Technology, and Chalmers Industriteknik. The final conference was held at Rise and Chalmers on Thursday where many exciting connections where built for the future!

Others who've helped support me in this endeavour so far: Tomas Faxheden, previously at Chalmers Innovationskontor, and Zacco and many others too. Thank you!

Now an exciting spring is waiting where tests will be performed with the goal of developing the innovation for integration in faucets etc with support of a student master thesis project.

Are you interested in what metal 3D-printing can do for water heating. Contact me!

08/12/2022

Delighted to be part of Chalmers entrepreneurship village calendar for 4th of December.

Having been selected for my work on finding new and sustainable ways of using metal 3D printing to heat water more efficiently.

Read more about my current collaboration with Chalmers Entrepreneurship students here: akvall.se

Simon Dybeck is a student at Chalmers University of Technology. From his TRACKS course in additive manufacturing he took a novel idea and became an idea…

13/08/2022

✅ MASTER'S DEGREE of INDUSTRIAL DESIGN ENGINEERING

Six inspiring years at Chalmers University of Technology has brought me many new friends, to Amsterdam, and multiple awards. Here's a little summary of it all.

Apart from attaining a wide set of engineering skills, my program focused on meaningful and human-centred design, with me specialising further in 3D printing technologies and its application to develop novel and sustainable products.

Here are some key projects from my studies🏆
During my bachelor I first won a competition for RISE Research Institutes of Sweden by designing a foldable rear carrier for a bike with an accompanying bag. The price, my first ever patent. After this, me and Cornelia Nilsson developed a new bag holder for Willys to make packing groceries with cloth bags easier in the self-checkout.

When designing bike parts for metal 3D printing, the breakthrough possibilities of the software nTopology made it possible to massively reduce the weight of a handlebar system. Next I crafted a wooden lamp from birch veneer, inspired by the designs of teenage engineering. The resulting product I handcrafted, which has wireless and analog control of brightness and light color, won in two categories of the lighting competition LIT Lighting Design Awards.

During my master years I developed a sustainable way to heat water by use of metal 3D printing, a concept that became a finalist in a competition by 3DVerkstan and Markforged. The concept was also a winner of both Göteborg Energi's competition Tänk:Om and the Green Product Award for its promising outlook to reduce our energy use when heating water.

Finally after being selected for exchange studies at TU Delft | Industrial Design Engineering in 2021, I followed that with doing my master thesis in Amsterdam this spring at the lovely design studio Pilotfish, designing a new way for controlling the smart home - lights, speakers, audio, comfort, TV - to have better usability and be free from distracting smartphone use. The interface was developed with women users only to gather new and valuable insights that otherwise could be missed as products most often are designed with white men as the only reference. Working to combat such inequalities is something I want to continue working with as a designer in the future.

Now, a new exciting chapter begins as I start work as a design engineer at Alrec in the Netherlands, continuing my efforts to make sustainable and user-friendly products.

Read more about projects above and others here: https://battredesign.se

05/06/2022

Happy to share that I became one of the winners in the Green Concept Award. I won in the category for sustainable and innovative building components with my next-generation water heater, utilizing the benefits of metal 3D printing.

I will continue my work with this concept to make it a reality in the near future to reduce our energy use and dependancy on gas.

12/04/2022

Versatile and enthusiastic product designer looking for work in Amsterdam!

I am a curious and positive person who enjoys pushing the boundaries to make products more inclusive, sustainable, and with better usability. My goal is to develop meaningful products for the users, and when possible, apply benefits of 3D printing in metals or plastics. I bring cheerfulness and ingenious ideas to any project.

I am looking for companies with a strong vision to create meaningful products. I want to work in a diverse team of people I can learn from to grow as a person and designer. Design agencies or companies within additive manufacturing is of high interest as I want to develop human-centred tangible products.

Please share or let me know if you have any companies in mind 🙂

08/03/2022

Happy International Women's Day!
This year's theme is . An important mission as most industries are led by men; producing products that generally have been designed for the default white male.

Follow the link to read more about the design agency Pilotfish and my master thesis work to fight gender bias to make smart home interaction more inclusive and usable for all.

International Women's Day gives the Pilotfish team an opportunity to reflect on gender bias in industrial design and engineering.

14/02/2022

Amsterdam🇳🇱, master thesis📜, equality⚖️!
I am super-excited to have started my product development project for the experienced design agency Pilotfish - their motto 'Humanising Technology' aligning well with my vision as a designer.

Having spent an exchange semester at TU Delft, I've learnt a lot and feel happy to be able to spend my last semester on issues of inequality and sustainability. This spring will be challenging, fun and developing for me, hopefully leading to the creation of a meaningful product for all smart home users.

But instead of designing for the white male default which Is sadly still very common, I am developing a concept for women primarily. The goal is to provide a device that makes it easier, quicker and more delightful to control the smart home (trying to boost the markets slower than projected adoption rates).

Interested in the the topic of gender bias in design and smart homes?
* An old but still applicable article on the industry's continuous design for the white male default.
https://www.inc.com/magazine/201404/jennifer-alsever/tech-companies-market-to-female-audience.html
* Read books and research from Tom Hargreaves or Yolande Strengers
* Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men (Marcal)
* Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Criado Perez)

31/01/2022

Look at this impressive beauty - my prize as a finalist in a metal 3D printing competition held by Markforged and 3DVerkstan 🏆

It's incredible to see how well the Metal X printer produces intricate details. Thanks for supporting my development of a more sustainable way to heat water 🙌🏼