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Claire Vos
I strive for a future with a good balance between humans, nature and technology, I don’t want to create products that will take over our life, the goal is to make products an addition to life. The product should be built around its purpose, not the other way around.
About me
My name is Claire and I am a designer to be. In September 2019 I started my study at the Technical University of Eindhoven. But I am actually from the Northern part of the Netherlands. I was born in 2000 and have lived in Termunterzijl (a small village in the province of Groningen) for 18 years, after that I moved for my studies. I used to live with my family, I have one small brother, a cat, dog and two rabbits, we also consider the animals to be our family, I shouldn't have favorites, but it would definitely be my dog.
I really like hockey, ever since I was 13 I played on a professional level. I have played on the Dutch National Championship and also the European championship of hockey 5s in 2016. Here I was allowed to represent my other nationality, because I am half Bulgarian. People around me can tell you that I live for the competition and that I strive only for the best. But now I spend my days playing handbal which I also very much enjoy
Apart from sports i spend a lot of my time with friends, they keep me going and we have lots of fun. I love spending time with them. I rather have a few people who mean the world to me and care about me. So I have a very tight small group of friends
Further more I really like snowboarding in the winter, I have my own equipment and the thrill you get when you go down just never grows old. I also have a passion for arts and crafts ever since I was little, I loved making things and drawing. But even for an artist I am and have always been very precise. That is how I ended up at the study industrial design in Eindhoven, a combibation of my artistis side and my precise technical side.
Identity
Before knowing I wanted to be a designer I was interested in many fields, I have a passion to learn as much as possible and be as versatile as I can be. My interests lie in many different areas, from biology and nature to techniques, psychology, and philosophy. Now all this knowledge helps me in the design field, it gives me the bigger picture and allows me to create insights others may not have. I want to a be designer for the people, so to me, the most important thing about designing for me is that I create useful designs which have a purpose. With my designs, I want to help people and make life better for us humans while keeping and creating a healthy world, meaning that design should be sustainable in all ways (Human, Social, Economic and Environmental).
While designing I like to have the input of others so that they can help me see the things I might miss and create even better designs and products. This equals to input of fellow designers, specialists in the field but also very importantly: users. I see myself as a user-centered designer, I hold a lot of value in the opinion of users and people around me, as I want to design for the people.
My design process is pretty tidy, so sometimes I need help from others to be shaken loose and get new inspiration. On top of that am very precise and perfectionistic, this often creates good final results and a purposeful working space but might lead me to get stuck on less important aspects. That is why I prefer and really enjoy working in a team, my qualities help me add structure and determination to the team and they help me to get into my creative modes and challenge me.
That being said I do prefer to work in small groups because then I have a good overview of the things happening and it enables me to have a more personal connection which I appreciate when working together. I naturally take on leadership roles, I want to be there for my team and help all of us to get the best out of ourselves. But I am a very flexible person, in a group, I see myself as the joker in the game, I can be put in many places and will fill the gaps that a team might have. So, I try to be what is needed at that point in time, this also makes me a good listener and a person that combines ideas.
Vision
When I design I am inspired by nature. The balance, sereneness and knowledge that nature holds, can be a great source of inspiration. Nature is an ecosystem that works together in many different ways respecting each other’s existence and inner workings leading to perfection in its own way. Many challenges have been solved by nature and these are things that we as designers can use to make our designs and products better or get ourselves inspired. This gives us the chance to make designs that are more connected to the world and to each other. I strive for a future with a good balance between humans, nature and technology, I don’t want to create products that will take over our life, the goal is to make products an addition to life.
I want to create this balance with simple (meaning only the necessary features that give an added benefit without frivolity), clear (meaning understandability and transparency) and sustainable designs, the product should be built around its purpose, not the other way around. I like to see products that are understandable and have high usability, products that do what they were made for in a way that suits the people that need to use them. That is why I want to create designs as straightforwardly as possible, so they have the least amount of distractions and unnecessariness. To do this the user perspective is important, this is something I want to include during my whole design process because, in the end, I am making something for the user. So testing and validating are things that I find very important. This also helps to achieve better and clearer designs for the people that will use them. The designs that I have made and will make are aimed at people to help improve their lives while respecting and caring for others.
To add to this and create more value, I want to design as sustainable as possible, since nature and the world are important, but it also needs to be sustainable for humans our social environment and our economy. I hope to do this by creating more circular products or services and trying to make conscious decisions about materials, production and the way a design is built. This way it also adds to the balance we need between humans, nature and technology.
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