The Clean Energy Challenge by What Design Can Do called on start-ups, designers and students from all over the world to rethink how we produce, distribute and use …
Farmers’ perspectives on water and soil management
STBY was asked to carry out an exploratory research to better understand the perspectives of farmers working in water catchment areas on the management of water …
Providing Research Support for the Affordable Credit Challenge
STBY worked with Nesta and HM Treasury to scope the problem statements and orchestrate partnerships for the recently launched Affordable Credit Challenge.
Guiding a Strategic Innovation Journey
A large multinational supplier for the automotive industry wanted to develop its own way of developing new ambitious propositions for the future.
Discovering new opportunities for financial services
STBY was asked by a Dutch financial institution to carry out design research to support the creation of new service concepts in relation to housing. Our exploratory…
Innovating the Candidate Journey
Customer centric innovation is a common practice in design research today, and can be seen as an evolution of that is employee centric innovation. Thinking of organisations’…
Changing the role of plastic in our daily lives
Most people living in today’s society find it hard to go without the use of plastic, or even to reduce their use of plastic. Various media have recently shed a spotlight…
No Minor Thing
What can designers do to help combat the sexual exploitation of children? That is the question posed by What Design Can Do in collaboration with the Dutch Public Prosecutions…
Co-creating a traffic policy
Recently STBY was asked to support conversations between policymakers of the city of Amsterdam and residents of a specific neighborhood about the renewal of their…
Global challenges, local actions
Climate change is a global problem, yet we can locally design interventions that really make a difference, especially in cities around the world. It is well known…
Design Driven Business Innovation
For the third year in a row STBY partners with Amsterdam Business School in delivering its Professional Post-Graduate Course for Design Driven Business Innovation.…
Algorithms and personal taste
Determining what someone likes and satiating their everyday desires is a challenge that many content providers are now racing to tackle. From Netflix to Amazon,…