.. working on the cross roads of industry and academia, with an extensive background in both.

Projects

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Service Experience Lab on mobile internet

Together with the Creation Centre of T-Labs (part of Deutsche Telekom in Berlin) STBY organised and facilitated a Service Experience Lab in London. In a full day programme product managers …

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User-Centered Design across development stages

For the University of Amsterdam STBY facilitated a series of workshops with students, lecturers and system operators to inform the iterative development of its new Electronic Learning System (ELO).

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Living Well in Cornwall

STBY were asked by Dott Cornwall – a Design Council body who promote design-led solutions to economic and social problems – to investigate what could be done to support sustainable …

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Charging up around the world

How do people around the world charge their mobile devices? How do they use electricity in their households, and how do they think about their energy usage? Together with all …

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Co-creating education

In the early stages of developing a new international master course, the University of Tilburg was interested in a series of empathic conversations with students to explore some first ideas …

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Services to support complex decision making

In collaboration with Broca & Wernicke, STBY investigated the complex decision making processes within hospitals on the application of surgical treatments. We interviewed people throughout the organisation, from surgeons to …

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Creating design briefs on patient dignity

The Design Council and the Department of Health in the UK have recently initiated a national design challenge ‘Designing for Patient Dignity’. STBY was asked to contribute to the exploratory …

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User-led service opportunities for Sony

In close collaboration with Radarstation, STBY conducted a qualitative consumer research for Sony, exploring opportunities for new service concepts beyond their traditional market.

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Urban Creatives: young and switched on

For Bigga Fish and BANG Radio we set up and managed a youth study in London with an experimental approach. We first trained and coached a panel of 5 young …

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Follow-up study for T-Mobile

Following on a previous study for T-Mobile in April, we worked with the client team again in June to test the ideas for new mobile internet services that were developed …