Playbook : Getting Started with Policy Co-design
Getting Started with Policy Co-design is the result of, and a reflection upon, a specific policy co-design process with the department for Culture in Jalisco, Mexico that took place across 2020-2021....
View ArticleDeep Dive Ethnography
Deep dive ethnography is a way of using structured interactions to gain empathic insights about the people you’re designing for, often while sharing their experiences in their own setting. This kind of...
View ArticleHyper local vs. system thinking
Exploring better use of public space 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...
View ArticleDesign Driven Business Innovation course
Following up on the success of our annual master course together with the Business School of the University of Amsterdam, we have the opportunity to again offer an executive course for professionals on...
View ArticleStudent Intern at STBY
We’re always interested in hearing from bright, enthusiastic, creative students who want to intern with us and learn more about design research and service design as part of their studies. Important:...
View ArticleChallenging designers to tackle climate change
How can designers tackle a problem as complex as climate change? That’s the question we’ve been trying to answer this year as the research partner for What Design Can Do’s Climate Action Challenge. In...
View ArticleProbing Collectives of Users
Using cultural probes to understand relationships among interconnected users Many organisations are developing services for collectives of users, such as teams, families, communities, and...
View ArticleHow to orchestrate systemic change?
In September STBY was involved in three events that all seemed to trigger a similar discussion. In Amsterdam we co-organised an explorative workshop with our partner What Design Can Do, to discuss...
View ArticleEnhancing training with coaching
Over the past years we have increasingly been asked to support client organisations with their internal capacity building for service innovation. Our vast experience of working as practitioners on...
View ArticleDesigning 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: Prediction, Action and the Embodied Mind....
View ArticleNew opportunities for chemistry database application
In collaboration with Elsevier’s service design team, STBY conducted design research to identify new opportunities for a database application used by scientists worldwide to access chemistry...
View ArticleExploring the future of coffee table book publishing
Opportunities for innovation in illustrated art and culture book publishing In the summer of 2017, STBY collaborated with Thames & Hudson to explore the future of illustrated art and culture book...
View ArticleMozFest 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 approach to smart city development,...
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