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 …
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The way forward with smart mobility
Even for brief local journeys, for shopping or work purposes, people often combine walking, cycling or driving, and public transportation like urban rail, or the…
Customer Journeys for Government Communication
STBY was asked to share experiences of working with Customer Journeys at the Academy for Government Communication. This is an initiative organised by the Ministry of General Affairs, and open for all civil servants working on government communication.
Learning about service innovation with STBY
We help clients learn about service design and design research in different ways, depending on the needs and context of the learners. These range from senior-level…
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…
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…
Strategic creativity book club: Frame Innovation
The book club aims to be an approachable, walk-in, sense-making moment, and we try to keep it low-threshold, but thought-provoking and productive. It is more of …
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…
What Design Can Do: Refugee Challenge
Over the past months STBY has been collaborating with What Design Can Do. Together, we created the 5 design briefs for the What Design Can Do Refugee Challenge.
We…
From form to forest
RVO, the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland) asked STBY to help improve their services for organisations that want to request…
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,…
Cities are like organisms
Healthy organisms adapt and evolve based on what is happening in the world around them. Cities are ever-changing organisms, and part of their evolution and adaptation…