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Global what?

This lovely collage of webcam pictures illustrates what we are going on about all the time: our fantastic network of great design researchers collaborating all around the world!

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 …

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. …

Guest lectures at Business Schools

Geke van Dijk has been invited to give guest lectures on customer insights for service innovation at two different Business Schools, Tias Nimbas in Tilburg (NL) and Cranfield (UK).

Service Design Thinks Amsterdam

The first Service Design Thinks event on 18 February was a great succes. The beautiful room, generously offered to us by the Waag Society, was packed with people from various …

New website Service Design Netwerk Nederland

We finally managed to sit down together and compile a website for the Dutch Service Design Network, offering a online platform for sharing news and resources.

Next Service Design Network conference in Berlin

Bas was invited to sit on the Programme Board of the nex Service Design Network conference (SDNC10) and took part in a first meeting in Koeln this weekend. We discussed …

Call for papers on Service Design

The academic journal Behaviour and Information Technology has accepted to publish a special issue on ‘Services and Human-Computer Interaction: New Opportunities’. A call for papers, explaining the topic and procedure …

Tools for tomorrow’s public policies

About sixty representatives, researchers, sociologists and creatives met up at La Boate, in Marseille, to invent tools for tomorrow’s public policies, and imagine the future of the 26 french regions. …

Service Design Talks 20/1

On 20 January we will be getting together again to discuss another recently published and interesting book related to Service Design. This time it’s Tim Brown’s new book ‘Change by …