Initiating a Circular Design Movement
This year, we worked with WDCD and Circle Economy to develop the ‘Make it Circular’ Challenge. In it, designers, creators, entrepreneurs, innovators, artists...
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The Reach School 2022 Programme is here!
This September the Reach School starts running classes for designers, researchers and leaders to learn from experienced practitioners about how to be an agent …
Towards Better Digital Inclusion (Part 2)
STBY contributed as a research partner for a nation wide project ‘Tel Mee Met Taal Experimenten’ initiated by the Dutch Institute of Image and Sound (Nederlands …
Reflections on our series of published books
Our latest publication Catalysts: Thoughts on Design Research for Meaningful Change is part of a series of books. It is the fourth book about design research we published…
The books we read
At STBY we all love to read. Reading widely is not only pleasurable in itself, it also enables us to learn new things which often helps us to excel in our work. As design…
How to not become (too) cynical
As design researchers at STBY we are dealing with lots of complex issues and data. We are diving into root causes, problem areas and, luckily, also opportunities …
‘New’ Tools for Surveying in Design Research
While we tend to sway toward more qualitative methods at STBY, we have been increasingly doing more mixed-methods research. This includes incorporating a lot more…
Towards Better Digital Inclusion (Part 1)
Approximately 2,5 million people in the Netherlands still experience difficulties while using digital devices such as computers, smartphones or tablets (Stichting…
Reflections on ‘Embracing Change’
STBY is actively taking part in the Service Design Network and was therefore keen to virtually attend last year’s Service Design Global Conference (SDGC)…
Magazine: Natural gas-free living in The Netherlands
The magazine ‘Aardgasvrij wonen’ (Natural gas-free living) presents the results of four related research projects that explored which considerations, issues…
Blending quantitative and qualitative research
STBY recently delivered two projects that involved a blended quantitative and qualitative approach. The first project, for a corporate client, studied the use…
GOOD19: a different type of gathering
People interested in the transformative power of design research around the world gathered at the GOOD19 Conference in Londen on the 27th of July. GOOD19 was the …