Emerging new rituals at STBY
In times of uncertainty people have a greater need for rituals, anthropologists have long observed. Covid-19 drastically changed the way we live and work around the world, and obviously also at STBY....
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Service improvements with local government staff
Following up on a previous study among entrepreneurs in Amsterdam about their experiences with the service offering from the local government, STBY conducted a series of workshops in each of...
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Workshop Tour in Japan
2013 started off with an exciting series of workshops and presentations in Japan. STBY was invited to work with two universities in Tokyo and one of the largest national IT companies. Keio University –...
View ArticleDesign Documentaries Workshop Presentation
At the UX Hong Kong conference 2012, Bas Raijmakers ran a workshop on design documentaries, working with 50 participants to explore some Golden Rules for using film in design research. This workshop...
View ArticleStudying new behaviours across an ecosystem of devices
As a follow up on our previous work on mobile phone devices, we recently completed an intensive though extremely exciting project on new and changing behaviours of owners of smartphones and devices....
View ArticleDesign Research and UX Research on App Store Usage
The field of design research can still trace its humble beginnings to UX research. Particularly here at STBY this is an heritage that we are proud of, since so many of us have a background in UX...
View ArticleFamily Oriented Services
STBY has recently completed a design research project for an international communications company focusing on family oriented services. Successful family oriented services can already be found in many...
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What can we learn from lead patients using wearables?
The Dutch Ministery of Public Health advocates an increased focus on e-health, with the aim that more and more people will monitor and manage their healthy lifestyles through using smart technologies....
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Presenting Engaging Design Projects at Goldsmiths
We’ve been working with the latest cohort of Goldsmiths’ MA Design students on their current term project, ‘Engaging Design.’ The design research brief asks students to engage with a Public Body in...
View ArticleLondon Design Festival: Research on the move
STBY is running a 2 hour workshop as part of the Service Design Fringe Festival next week at our studio in Shoreditch. Here we’ll explore visual methods for design research, building on STBY’s latest...
View ArticleWhat Design Can Do For The Climate
How can designers tackle a problem as complex as climate change? That was the question we were faced with when we partnered with What Design Can Do to do the research for their Climate Action...
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Routledge Companion to Design Research
STBY was invited to contribute a chapter to the book ‘Routledge Companion to Design Research‘, edited by Professor Paul Rodgers and Dr. Joyce Yee for Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group Publishers....
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