Welcome on the personal page of Paul Hekkert
Dr. Paul Hekkert is full professor of form theory at Delft University of Technology and adjunct professor at the School of Design of Swinburne University, Melbourne. Within the department of Industrial Design, he chairs the section design aesthetics and supervises a research group carrying out research on our sense perception and (emotional) experience of products. He has published on product experience and aesthetics in major international journals and is co-editor of Design and Emotion: The experience of everyday things [2004] and Product experience [2008].

Together with his colleague and designer prof. van Dijk, he also developed an interaction-centred design approach, called Vision in Product design (ViP) that is widely applied in both education and industry. Their book on ViP [Vision in design: A guidebook for innovators (BIS Publishers)] will be released in June 2011. Paul serves as a member of the editorial boards of The Design Journal, Empirical Studies of the Arts, and the International Journal of Design.

Paul is also co-founder and chairman of the Design and Emotion society and has co-organized six consecutive international Design & Emotion conferences.

If you want to see Paul live, check his upcomming talks