Designing for predictive public spaces
While working on a series of projects aimed at improving the experience of pedestrians and bicyclists, I was reading Andy Clark’s book Surfing Uncertainty:…
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Hyper local vs. system thinking
Over the past year STBY has conducted several design research projects for the city of Amsterdam, supporting them with innovation projects around the use of public space.
Streetlab – conflict of interest or celebration of diversity?
In the past year, we have immersed ourselves in the ways in which Amsterdam’s cyclists and pedestrians experience the streets. Our research was commissioned…
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…
Celebration and contemplation at the Design & Emotion Conference
This year’s Design & Emotion conference at Amsterdam’s Pakhuis de Zwijger was a great opportunity to pause for “Celebration & Contemplation” – …
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 …
Global design with local understanding
Millions of people in more than a hundred countries now use Ebay’s sites and apps every day. These visitors represent a myriad of different cultures. Knowing precisely…
Improving bicycle parking in public space
The city of Amsterdam is famous for her bicycle culture. The relatively small city is easy to cross and there are bicycle lanes all around. However, once arrived on…
Lead… and let go
In our projects we often help clients to innovate by doing design research together. This usually includes qualitative research and co-creation sessions, in which…
Pushing the Boundaries
The following is an excerpt from our forthcoming publication Viewfinders: Thoughts on Visual Design Research (2016).
Visual design research is relatively young,…
How do people close to us see STBY?
An interview with the partner of one of our design researchers.
It is sometimes hard to explain what we do – especially to people who are less familiar with our field…
Encouraging Speculation in Design Research
For a client in the technology sector who wanted to look 3-5 years ahead, we recently teamed up with design and research studio Superflux to look at how we could encourage…