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)
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)
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 ArticleRAFA Glasgow
  For a good night out in Glasgow, visit the RAFA (RAF Association). To get to the club downstairs you need to pass through the original members lounge full of old flight-related memorabilia. It is...
View Article(Un)common Ground
(Un)common Ground is an international research network exploring the practice of creative, cross-sector collaborations. Case studies of state-of-the-art projects on the crossroads of design,...
View ArticleDesigning Across Boundaries
With 11 Sao Paulo-based and 9 London-based designers we were involved in a Design Challenge at Villiers Highschool in Southall, London. The goal was to design a product or service for the school, in...
View ArticleFun at Villiers Highschool
During the 60-hour Design Challenge at the Villiers Highschool in Southall London, we coached the design teams in using video as a tool for their research. During the periods that they were working on...
View ArticleService Design drinks in Utrecht
Come and join us at the Service Design drinks in Utrecht on 17 June from 18:30. The location chosen by our friends from 31Volts is Louis Hartlooper Complex, Aolsteegbrug 1, Utrecht (15 minute walk from...
View ArticleService Design drinks in London
Design drinks are happening everywhere around the globe! (Uhm, around the North Sea that is for now, but it feels like this is definitely part of a wider movement.) On 19th June there will be SD drinks...
View ArticleGlobal Design Research network
As part of the global design research network Reach we are conducting two international researches: Charging up around the world Together with all Reach partners we participate in a global study on how...
View ArticleInvited talk at Service Systems Forum in Cambridge
Geke van Dijk was invited to speak on Service design and Open Innovation at the Service Systems Forum in Cambridge. This Forum takes place on a monthly basis at St. John’s College in Cambridge and i...
View ArticleJoin our participant network
When we kick off a new research project, one of the first things we do is search for participants. We look for people in all shapes and forms and a variety of interests. The area of interest in a study...
View ArticleKeynote presentation at CHI.nl
Geke van Dijk gave a keynote speech at the CHI.nl conference on 11 June in Leiden. The title was ‘Change: moving on the the next level’. The talk was an appeal to pioneers in the HCI field in The...
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