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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...
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Strategic 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...
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Well, 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...
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Service 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...
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Auto-Cam: Investigating Visual UX Research
We’ve been working on an exciting new project, co-funded by Innovate UK, the UK’s Innovation Agency. Together with Goldsmiths’ Interaction Research Studio, we’re investigating and developing an...
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Encouraging Speculation in Design Research
For a client in the technology sector who wanted to look 3-5 years ahead, we recently teamed up with design and research studio Superflux to look at how we could encourage both storytelling (narrative)...
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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, making it ripe for exploration and...
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Viewfinders: Thoughts on Visual Design Research
We’re very excited to have published Viewfinders: Thoughts on Visual Design Research, exploring the rich potential photography, film and beyond hold for design research. Bas Raijmakers and Samantha...
View ArticleLondon Design Festival: Research on the move
STBY is running a 2 hour workshop as part of the Service Design Fringe Festival next week at our studio in Shoreditch. Here we’ll explore visual methods for design research, building on STBY’s latest...
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Using Open Data for Design Research
I attended a workshop at the Open Data Institute in Shoreditch, an organisation with the important mission “to connect, equip and inspire people around the world to innovate with data.” My day-long...
View ArticleParticipatory Painting: A Design Research Method?
The MEDIATIONS Conference took place at the RCA in London, marking the close of the TRADERS project (short for ‘Training Art and Design Researchers for Participation in Public Space’). TRADERS focused...
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Empathic Conversations
In this article, we explore our approach to enabling empathic conversations in our design research, between researchers and participants and among the wider client and design teams. Using a case study...
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