What Design Can Do For The Climate
How can designers tackle a problem as complex as climate change? That was the question we were faced with when we partnered with What Design Can Do to do the research…
design documentaries
London Design Festival: Research on the move
STBY is running a 2 hour workshop as part of the Service Design Fringe Festival next week at our studio in Shoreditch. Here we’ll explore visual methods for design …
Routledge Companion to Design Research
STBY was invited to contribute a chapter to the book 'Routledge Companion to Design Research', edited by Professor Paul Rodgers and Dr. Joyce Yee for Routledge, Taylor and Francis.....
Presenting Engaging Design Projects at Goldsmiths
We’ve been working with the latest cohort of Goldsmiths’ MA Design students on their current term project, ‘Engaging Design.’ The design…
What can we learn from lead patients using wearables?
The Dutch Ministery of Public Health advocates an increased focus on e-health, with the aim that more and more people will monitor and manage their healthy lifestyles…
Family Oriented Services
STBY has recently completed a design research project for an international communications company focusing on family oriented services.
Successful family oriented…
Design Research and UX Research on App Store Usage
Very recently we were challenged to imagine a research project to support the development of a new app store design that could combine design research and UX research.
Studying new behaviours across an ecosystem of devices
As a follow up on our previous work on mobile phone devices, we recently completed an intensive though extremely exciting project on new and changing behaviours …
Design Documentaries Workshop Presentation
At the UX Hong Kong conference 2012, Bas Raijmakers ran a workshop on design documentaries, working with 50 participants to explore some Golden Rules for using film…
Workshop Tour in Japan
2013 started off with an exciting series of workshops and presentations in Japan. STBY was invited to work with two universities in Tokyo and one of the largest national IT companies.
Service improvements with local government staff
Following up on a previous study among entrepreneurs in Amsterdam about their experiences with the service offering from the local government, STBY conducted …
Entrepreneurial experiences in Haarlem
The city of Haarlem is keen to improve its services to local entrepreneurs. To this purpose, they have initiated several activities. One of these is the campaign 'More Service, Less Rules'. Another such initiative is a qualitative research among local entrepreneurs to learn from their experiences. STBY was asked by the Chamber of Commerce to conduct this study. The aim was to elicit entrepreneurs' experiences and satisfaction with the municipal service delivery, and to advise on solutions to the barriers that entrepreneurs are facing.