Especially during this last semester, I’ve found new confidence in my design processes, research and design choices, demonstration skills and professional identity and vision. The break I’ve had between executing and finishing my project has helped me in this confidence, by giving me the opportunity to look and reflect with fresh eyes. Through the process of my entire master trajectory and by looking back on my, in my own opinion, less successful M21 project, I have learned how to use literature and methods as a driver for next steps in the process. Especially in my M21 I found it difficult to find the common thread, while the process of this M22 graduation project went much smoother and in a more logical way. As a result, I felt very relaxed during my final master project, despite being challenged by trying out new methods or, for example, when I was recruiting participants on the High Tech Campus.

I have found that calm technology is a design-related expression of my ideological vision of the world. I would love it if people feel a sense of belonging, as I have personally experienced how that can make us as humans accelerate. I want people to feel like they are in the right place, supported by the people and products in their environment. I believe unnecessary struggles and stimuli are often just distractions and an attention and energy leak, which is reflected in my interest in calm technology. However, our environment also has great things to offer, as I elaborate on in my graduation project.

Now that I am looking for a job, I want to feel relaxed in my role and at the company, but I also want to be challenged, just as I have experienced the past semester at the university. I prefer to work on projects that deal with, for example, a social problem or addresses a topic such as sustainability. It could also be that one day I will go into education, in order to allow my aspirations regarding creating a sense of belonging and living up to one’s potential to blossom.