DRS2014: Design's Big Debates: Design Research Society's Seventh Biennial International Conference, Umeå, Sweden, June 16–19, 2014 (conference review)

Stella Boess is a product designer and assistant professor at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering of the TU Delft (NL) and holds a PhD in Design. She has contributed to design and research projects on usability, medical product design and urbanism. She has developed methods for product development teams to explore and share knowledge about product use, and for stakeholders in collaborative design sessions. Since 2011, Boess teaches design research methodology to master students. She is a council member of the Design Research Society and DRS2016 Conversations chair.