My portfolio
Mölnlycke Health Care has a long history making dressings that help wounds heal, as well as preventative products to reduce the risk of getting a wound in the first place. As a part of continued understanding of the user needs, improvement and creation of new products, I worked in an early development phase of a …
My master’s thesis at Chalmers in collaboration with Cochlear explored what design parameters are important to consider in order to fulfill the user needs of a desirable hearing solution for everyday life. The user experience was improved through considering the user preferences and attitudes, formgiving, usability, comfort, and context of use.
By Amanda Djäknegren and Hanna Murgård An important aspect of Volvo Trucks’ work with Usability is to understand the user’s satisfaction when using a product. As a part of my work at Driver Interaction at Volvo Trucks in collaboration with Hanna Murgård, we investigated a new method for measuring and understanding the user’s satisfaction. The …
By Amanda Djäknegren, Frida Grothérus, Isabelle Kjellström, Lina Ring, Sanna Göransson During 2020, the number of people studying or working from home rapidly increased due to the pandemic. As a part of the course “PPU181 Design for Experience” at Chalmers, the goal of this project was to gain an understanding of people’s experiences of working …
One of the challenges during the electrification of trucks is that the surrounding Vulnerable Road Users still have to perceive and understand the truck’s motion and position relative to themselves despite the lack of sound of a large diesel engine. During the development of the Acoustic Vehicle Alerting System (AVAS), I designed, performed and analysed …
By Amanda Djäknegren, Christoffer Boman, Hanna Sinclair Dahlström, Frida Grothérus, Alexandra Rosén and Arwin Saleh In my bachelor thesis at Chalmers in collaboration with tech-consultant company Together Tech (previously i3tex), a concept for a navigational aid for people with a visual impairment was created. The purpose of this product was to enable a user-friendly way …
By Amanda Djäknegren & Johanna Bergfelt-Ramos de Souza Filling beer kegs at microbreweries is still a very physically demanding labour. Nowadays, kegs are often made entirely out of plastic where the most common kind is “KeyKegs”. While KeyKegs are a lot lighter than the metal kegs which were common priorly, a major disadvantage to KeyKegs …