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Department: Inter­action Design (MA)

Sigrid Sitnikov

This project will give an example of a journey that tries to get an obscure prototype into an early stage of being market-ready. Whether a prototype is born as a result of a school project or a hackathon, there is a chance it might be made into a product or service. As a design student, …

Danai Asteriadi

With my thesis, I wanted to explore ways to help people through the grieving process. Through research, I narrowed the topic down to communication within the family and grief after death from a terminal illness. More specifically, I focused on the communication between the family and the patient at the end of life and explored …

Francesco Duc

Should designers be involved with law-making? What is the possible contribution of design to the policy/public service system? Francesco applied a design methodology to the writing of a law on the hot topic of the Estonian pension system, written with a Human & Service Centered Design approach. Which means:Designed starting from the needs and behaviors …

Jekaterina Suharenko

The subject of my work would be enabling designers with a life-centered design vision through understanding the nature of water. We must adapt our lifestyles and mindset towards the needs of each living being to sustain beneficial living conditions for each living entity. A life-centered design approach adopts holistic perspectives to understand dynamic relationships across …

Jete-Maria Vürmer

DataGambit is an application that uses retrieved data for personalised health insights, enabling users to make better data-driven decisions and regain balance in life. The health navigator bot helps users understand their information and symptoms in a conversational approach and encourages learning through reflection. The app is aimed at people who experience health anxiety or …

Joosep Noorväli

This degree project started from Public Sector Innovation Team’s project ‘child in need’. Through my research, I directed my focus completely to the children themselves and tried to empower them. My final design concept tries to decrease the occurrence of mental health-related problems with children’s personal object that have been imbued through repetition with good …

Kaari Sibrits

The purpose of this project was to explore the relationship casual internet users have with their personal data and offer a design concept to help build that relationship. I looked into peoples’ attitudes towards personal data, how they think it is used and if they try to manage their personal data in any way. The …

Maret Ringmäe

The times when people with special needs (physical disabilities, intellectual disabilities or mental health disorders) were kept out of society are changing and have already changed. Large special care homes, most of which were far from urban areas and people, are a thing of the past. The new direction is small family-like homes in the …

Mikk Sander Lemberg

Public libraries in Estonia are facing a lack of funding and resources caused by a lack of shared understanding of what is expected of library services in the 21st century. Despite the existential crisis in the context of digitisation and urbanisation, public libraries provide unique value to the surrounding communities. Therefore, this study aims to …

Sander Kalmus

The number of people burning out is increasingly growing. The phenomenon associated with the burnout is lack of understanding and knowledge. As the symptoms of burnout are difficult to detect, preventing burnout requires collaborative and interactive actions. This study focused on the identification of burnout, aiming to create a solution to prevent it and make …