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OnCue began as my master’s thesis in Integrated Product Design at TU Delft, a project made possible through a collaboration with ParkinsonNederland, a foundation that raises funds and invests in the fight against Parkinson’s disease. They were the ones who identified a common challenge for people living with Parkinson’s: interacting with computers, and more specifically, with keyboards. An object that most of us use almost every day without thinking about it can become a real

I found myself becoming a finalist in the TU Delft Impact Contest, a student competition designed to help turn an idea into a startup. Being a finalist meant one thing to me: the idea made sense. Not only to me, but also to the people who had selected me to move forward. Then came the grand finale: pitching on stage, full of nerves and determination to do well. But there was no win. The €10,000 prize I had been holding on to as a possible way forward suddenly disappeared. I h

This month was all about connection and creating opportunities to show OnCue to people, raise awareness, and gather feedback. OnCue was presented at the Medical Delta Conference in Delft, and at Milan Design Week to an international audience. That meant preparing flyers and business cards, designing the exhibition setup, adjusting the prototype for different interactions, booking a flight back to Italy from the Netherlands, and packing a suitcase as full as my excitement to t

After graduating, it was time to find a job, or at least, that was what I thought. Six months earlier, before starting my thesis and working on improving computer interaction for people with Parkinson’s, I had been certain about what I wanted to do: I would go and work at a design agency. But during my thesis, and especially once it was finished, I started to feel that I would struggle to simply put the project in a box and move on. Who would take responsibility for this prob