Our creative research projects connect service providers with the lives and experiences of their customers. This helps our clients to innovate their service offering, making it more valuable for both their customers and business. Our projects generate rich and visually illustrated research materials that bring real people into the heart of design and innovation processes.
Tag Archives: ethnography
Charging Up: Energy usage in households around the world
July 7, 2010 – 11:32 am
Article for Touchpoint 4, the journal of the international Service Design Network, by Geke van Dijk. ‘Charging Up’ is an international study of people’s practices and motivations in relation to everyday usage of energy in households. This study investigated the interest and willingness people have to review and potentially alter their daily routines in energy [...]
Presentation at Emerce E-Day
July 6, 2010 – 9:47 am
Geke van Dijk and Julia Leihener (Creation Center Deutche Telekom) will be co-presenting at the E-Day conference, organised by Emerce on 16 September in Rotterdam. Geke and Julia will present the research project conducted by STBY and the Creation Center.
Exhibition at EPIC
July 5, 2010 – 1:24 pm
In collaboration with Daijiro Mizuno from the Critical Design Lab at Kyoto University of Art & Design, STBY will be exhibiting results from the Belonging & Belongings project at the EPIC conference in Tokyo from 28 August to 1 September.
STBY in Touchpoint
June 17, 2010 – 9:35 am
STBY’s Strategy Director Geke Van Dijk has contributed an article to issue 4 of Touchpoint, the international journal of service design. The issue focuses on links between service design and behavioural change.
Helping parents to advise and support
June 16, 2010 – 11:40 am
Building on the results of a previous study, STBY were asked by DUO/IB-Groep in the Netherlands to examine the ways in which parents support their children once they enter higher education. DUO/IB-Groep wanted to explore the needs of parents for services specifically tailored to them.
Personal storytelling with video
June 15, 2010 – 9:45 am
STBY recently produced a series of films for Nokia, documenting the ‘solutions’ people improvise to a range of situations in their everyday lives. These films are to be used in Nokia’s internal ideation and design processes, where they allow various departments to connect with the lives of consumers.
Remote services for older people
May 2, 2010 – 10:06 pm
For a consortium of public sector organisations in The Netherlands STBY is working on a user-driven innovation proces aiming to develop new remote services that support older people to live independently at home. Moving to a retirement home is not something most older people are looking forward to. Luckily nowadays, it is possible to get a lot of care and support at home. Remote services have a potential to offer people a maximum of flexibility and independence. In every stage of this project people from the target group, older people and their carers, have been involved in order make sure the team works with their perspective firmly in mind.
Personas to inform and inspire service innovation
May 2, 2010 – 6:47 pm
In a follow-up project to the early explorations in 2009, STBY was asked to develop a series of personas for Southern Water. Again, we worked closely together with the Design Council team on this project. We conducted an in-depth ethnographic study among 23 households in South East England, identified 4 distinct personas, and visualised those in a series of videos and a full colour A2 poster.
Service Experience Lab
January 28, 2010 – 11:01 am
Immerse yourself in the service experiences of your customers and identify new opportunities for innovation. In a bespoke one-day programme we facilitate an lively encounter between your team and some consumers from your target group.