Unpacking 20 years of design research

To celebrate reaching our twenty-year milestone, the Stby team took a look back at six recurring and essential themes in our work. We seized this occasion as an opportunity to jointly reflect not only on how these themes evolved over the years, but also on how we contributed to these developments. This has been a rewarding and inspiring exercise for ourselves, and also resulted in six great pieces of creative work that we were happy to share with our wider networks. 

For each theme, we first looked back at the extensive archive of projects we worked on throughout the years, and identified a few aspects that illustrate the evolution of each theme over time, as well as the key activities, roles and values that we established through our design research. We then conducted interviews with various people from our network of clients and partners. These interviews helped us to better understand the perspectives of various stakeholders involved and to iterate our initial digest and expression of the themes.

The final result of these efforts is a range of creative outputs wherein we share our thoughts and learnings on the topics. We have been posting about the individual results for each of the themes on our social media accounts over the past few weeks. This post is to bring them all together and make them more easily accessible. Our very own Stby Wrapped 😉