Smart textiles
For the conference How Smart Are We?, organised by Design Plus in London, STBY produced two design documentaires and creative workshops on the themes Drift and Swim. The first theme explored how smart...
View ArticleTravel stories
STBY has recently completed a long-term research on the use of travel related e-services. The main question was how consumers choose between using online and offline channels. The results show that...
View ArticleDesign Documentaries
Design documentaries are a new, visual way of bringing everyday life into design processes, as a source of inspiration. This method is used in the early stages of design processes, when designers want...
View ArticleIntelligent jewelry
Last week at the Create07 conference, both Michael Smyth and Peter Wright presented a project on intelligent jewelry. It was really interesting to hear how interaction designers and pervasive computing...
View ArticleDisappearing interaction
After the disappearing computer (integrated in objects such as cars, furniture and clothes), and the disappearing consumer (creative and empowered use of the integrated network of in/tangible service...
View ArticleDesign for innovation
Bill Moggridge, the writer of the book Designing Interactions, was in London last week for a series of talks.At the Innovation Forum he stressed that for innovation processes it is important to have...
View ArticlePick and Mix: consumers moving between online and offline channels
by Geke van Dijk. PhD thesis, completed in 2007, Computing Department, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. (PDF, 5 MB) No related posts.
View ArticlePhD thesis Design Documentaries
by Bas Raijmakers. Completed in 2007 at the Royal College of Art, Design Interactions, London, UK. (PDF, 4,7 MB) No related posts.
View ArticlePoster Design Documentaries
by Bas Raijmakers. He summarised and visualised his PhD thesis in this poster that was printed at the occasion of the graduation Show at the Royal College of Art in 2007. The image was modeled after a...
View ArticleStreetlab Amsterdam
 A really nice and fresh event in Amsterdam last July was Streetlab. Organised by Cultuurfabriek and Premsela Foundation, Streetlab managed to get a large group of street-based designers together to...
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 ArticleISDN03 conference talk Bas
At the Interenational Service Design Northumbria 2003 conference Bas gave a talk about using deign documentaries as a method to discover what matters to people. The slides can be downloaded from the...
View ArticleEdge Services – Ben Singleton
What happens if people use products or services they do not want other people to now about? Ben is looking at inconspicuous consumption. He did a sexual health project at DOTT07, looking at alternative...
View ArticleTobie Kerridge: Material Beliefs
Tobie works on the notion that when science raises profound ethical and social issues, society as a whole needs to take part in the debate. His project Material Beliefs is funded by public engagement...
View ArticleDaniela Sangiorgi: service design as the design of activity systems
Daniela follows Elena Pacenti’s (1998) view on services, which is that we must look at services as complex interfaces between providers and users. Service complexity refers to the complexity of the...
View ArticleLauren Tan: insights into design and its contributions to public life
Lauren is a PhD candidate at Northumbria University’s design school. DOTT07 (a series of service design projects in England’s North East in 2006 and 2007 directed by John Thackara and funded by the...
View ArticleDeborah Szebeko of Think Public
Deborah runs a service design company Think Public for the public sector (mainly health), and also started to do a PhD to reflect more on her work practice. One of her Think Public projects is called...
View ArticleCarla Cipolla: Design and Innovation for Sustainability
Carla is from the Politecnico di Milano and recently completed her PhD on the EMUDE case-studies of bottom up innovative practices of ordinary people. An example of such a case-study is the living room...
View ArticleInternational Service Design Northumbria 2008
Bas presented at the ISDN03 conference in Newcastle about design documentaries as a method to discover what matters to people. All presentations can be downloaded from the Northumbria University Design...
View ArticleGirls and Glossies
Press release by Spunk//STBY on a recently completed study among 15-16 year old girls. (Spunk//STBY is a joint venture for research specifically focused on issues regarding young people in The...
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