Author Archives: Bas Raijmakers

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Service Design Talks London on Ustream

We discussed the TiSDT book on the 22nd of March in our studio in London. You can find the hour long skype between Jakob Schneider and Marc Stickdorn and

Film Festival Rotterdam

At Film Festival Rotterdam Bas and Geke find inspiration for making design documentaries. For instance in the Japanese ‘Love Addiction’ where twenty somethings reenact their own struggles with finding love.

Visiting Stanford’s d.school

I was recently in Silicon Valley for a project with our Reach partner Portigal Consulting for a new client, and visited the d.school at Stanford. We collaborate with the d.school in a design thinking process, for our new client.

Human Hotspot

When I excited Liverpool Street Station on Friday morning, I bumped into these people/this technology: Human Hotspots! This must be

Video installation at EPIC in Tokyo

Bas and Geke presented their latest video work in Tokyo, for the first time in the format of a video installation. We showed four films that were made as part of the Belonging & Belongings research project

Get a discount for the Creative Company Conference!

The programme of the Creative Company Conference (CCC, 14 Septemer 2010) is now complete, and looks great for people who want to learn more about service design and design thinking. You can get a 50 euro discount on your ticket if you use this link.

Design research in Brazil

Geke and Bas have been in Brazil for a few weeks, traveling across the country visiting friends at our partner company Feel the Future and elsewhere. The vibe in Brazil is different from Europe we feel, in that there is a clear understanding here that the economy needs innovation to spur its growth, and that design has to play a vital role in that growth.

Froukje Sleeswijk Visser

Froukje Sleeswijk Visser is a senior design researcher based in STBY’s Amsterdam office. Her work focuses on effectively communicating insights within development processes, and this is a common theme of her work with STBY. Taking the lead on projects with clients such as Cisco, Froukje designs and implements projects that insert the experiences of real [...]

Bas speaks at Human Cities festival Brussels

How can visual stories help interdisciplinary design teams to step into the shoes of the future users of their designs? How can these teams develop relationships with these people? This is what Bas will address on 7 May during his invited talk…

Design for Patient Dignity results

The UK Department of Health and the Design Council presented the results of the Design for Patient Dignity programme that STBY did design research for in the Summer of 2009.