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.
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Prototyping Clean Energy Futures
In a workshop hosted by STBY during the Service Design Days in Barcelona on the 5th and 6th of October 2018, we prototyped ideas for new service concepts in response to the What Design Can Do Clean Energy Challenge.
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.…
MozFest workshop: Connecting citizens, not only devices
What is a city without its people? Not much. But sometimes, in all the technology talk around cities, the focus on people gets lost. How can we foster a citizen-led …
Exploring the future of coffee table book publishing
Opportunities for innovation in illustrated art and culture book publishing...
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.
Imagining More Walkable Cities
What does ‘walkability’ mean? Exploring more walkable cities could help us envision streets that can be used and enjoyed by everyone. Much has been written about…
Plants, protein and plastic: sustainability in food
How do people perceive food in terms of health and sustainability? Where do they get their information about food from, and what do they do with it?
36-hour Design Jam for the WDCD Climate Action Challenge
On May 23, What Design Can Do launched their Climate Action Challenge along with their partners the IKEA Foundation and the Autodesk Foundation. As research partner…
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…
What makes a home?
This is the question IKEA and its designers feel they must continually seek an answer to, if they are to succeed in their ambition “to create a better everyday life …
Design for learning
Professional teachers and designers tend to inhabit separate realms that don’t often connect. However, while preparing a recent 3-day training program, we learned…