Co-creating water management policy
The Dutch province of Noord-Brabant needed to develop a new provincial water plan, in which the goals for the water management of the next five years are laid down. In the past they did this by...
View ArticleStrategic scoping for new governmental intranet
The Dutch government’s public administration intranet is accessed by over 100,000 civil servants, from across different departments, external vendors and suppliers. The current intranet was designed...
View ArticleWell, Well, Well….CRISP magazine Issue 4
The fourth edition of the CRISP Magazine on well-being was launched at the Design and Emotion Conference in Bogota, Columbia and presented at CRISP Design Review Session in the Dutch Design Week in...
View ArticleNaomi Bueno de Mesquita
Naomi is currently forming part of the design research team for STBY’s Amsterdam office. She is a spatial designer with a background in Architecture Design (Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam) and...
View ArticleWhat 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 through using smart technologies....
View ArticleService Design workshops at York St. John
The students of the Service & Systems design course at York St. John are working on live projects with industry partners and the local council. They tackle topics from designing a new workspace to...
View ArticleModifying and applying tools to context
We recently hosted a day-long workshop with Microsoft, where we explored the potentials of the tools in the DIY Toolkit (Development Impact & You) for their team. In this immersive hands-on...
View ArticleImproving bicycle parking at train stations
Bicycle parking at train stations in big cities is an increasing problem in the Netherlands. A lot of travellers park their bikes along the streets and footpaths around the train station. In many...
View ArticleApogee Hosts UXHK 2015
Apogee, our partner in the REACH network for Global Design Reserach, recently hosted their annual User Experience Hong Kong Event (UXHK) from March 6-7. Through presentations, discussions, and...
View ArticleIn-house Service Design training
As more and more organisations are discovering the merits of service design and design thinking, and they embark on a process of realigning their service offering and internal procdures, they have a...
View ArticleDesign Research for Service Innovation
Our creative research projects connect organisations with the lives and experiences of their customers. This helps our clients to innovate their service offering, making it more valuable for both their...
View ArticleQuicksand Celebrates 10 Years
Our REACH partners Quicksand are celebrating their 10 year anniversary, and we wanted to congratulate them on these years of remarkable design research work and innovative projects. Their projects,...
View ArticleExchange about state of the art service innovation
We were honoured to welcome a delegation of Japanese business visitors to our office in Amsterdam. They were interested to learn more about our pioneering work as design researchers for service...
View ArticleChange in the public sector: Discussing European practices
STBY was invited by La 27e Region, the French national Laboratory for public transformations, to present at the opening of “Superpublic” – an exciting space in the center of Paris dedicated to...
View ArticleInnovation Accelerator for teachers
We are proud to announce that the Innovation Accelerator toolkit aimed at teachers in primary, secondary and vocational education has just been launched. We developed this toolkit for and with...
View ArticleMutual benefits from minimal delays
Delays in train departures from stations are a nuisance to many, such as train travelers and staff working in trains and stations, but also others stuck in traffic waiting needlessly at a nearby...
View ArticleBelonging & Belongings Workbook
Belonging & Belongings is a compilation of our artistic design research activities and materials from a research programme we have worked on together with Dr Daijiro Mizuno, from 2007 to 2011. The...
View ArticleDesign Driven Business Innovation
Following on the success in previous years, STBY again co-organised and co-lectured the third edition of this 8-week master course at the Business School of the University of Amsterdam. Together with...
View ArticleDIY toolkit – 1 year old
The DIY toolkit we created with Nesta and Quicksand last year has just passed its first birthday. And what a year it was! Since its launch the website has had 350.000 visits, from all over the globe...
View ArticlePresenting 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 research brief asks students to engage with a Public Body in...
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