Girls 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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CBBC cross-media consumption
Together with London-based innovation consultancy Radarstation, we worked on an ethnographic research for CBBC, exploring the cross-platform media consumption of 7 and 8 year old children. We used...
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Heartlands Idea Generation Workshops
As part of our long-time involvement in the Heartlands project in Cornwall as inclusive design facilitators, we organised a series of workshops to generate ideas and conversations about the futures...
View ArticleSmart Street presentation
The presentation Bas did at the Design Research Society conference Undisciplined! (2008) on the above mentioned paper. (PDF, 4.2 Mb) No related posts.
View ArticleSmart Street paper
Paper on experimental design research methods in a street in London, published by the Design Research Society and presented at their annual conference in 2008: Undisciplined!. The project was done with...
View ArticleThe Innovation Partners
We have teamed up with Radarstation and EDG to form The Innovation Partners. Together we offer a range of integrated services, covering service innovation, customer research and change processes. We...
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Presentation Bas at Undisciplined! DRS08
Yesterday at the annual conference of the Design Research Society Bas presented the paper he co-wrote with Wendy march of Intel’s People and Practices Research Group in Portland, OR. The paper...
View ArticleInclusive Design
Also on popular request an overview of which research techniques are most suitable in each stage of the inclusive design process. This is another area that is only scarely documented. STBY developed...
View ArticleService Design
On popular request a one-page explanation on Service Design. This is a relatively new and successful approach to innovation and it is becoming increasingly popular in the creative industry. However,...
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Elsevier Open Innovation
For the international academic publisher Elsevier we conducted a lead user research and organised a series of innovation workshops. The lead user research in both the UK and The Netherlands generated...
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 ArticleUncommon Ground
During the Crossmedia Week PICNIC06 in Amsterdam, an interesting workshop on knowledge sharing between academia and industry took place, organised by The Virtual Platform and the Utrecht School of the...
View ArticleEthnography in industry
In collaboration with the People and Practices Group from Intel, STBY organised and moderated a workshop on the use of ethnographic research practices within companies. A wide range of researchers from...
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Food for Thought
InnovationRCA has just published an interesting book by Toke Barter and R√© Dubhthaigh from Radarstation. This book, ‘Food for Thought: A service based approach to embedding innovation‘, addresses...
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Thrill Laboratory
Just spent a thrilling evening at the Dana Centre in London. The theme was Fairground – Thrill Laboratory. A full evening programme about the pleasures of thrill seeking behaviour. Some serious talks,...
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Innovation Reading Circle 01
Initiated by Nico Macdonald, the Innovation Reading Circle convenes on a bi-monthly basis to discuss recent books on innovation. For the first session we read Shaping Things by Bruce Sterling and...
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Convivio workshop
On 4-5 December the Technical University Eindhoven hosted a workshop organised by the European Convivio Network to discuss the big issues for interaction design during the coming 5 years, as well as...
View ArticleIndependents Christmas Lunch
For the second year Gill Wildman and Nick Durrant from Plot organised a Christmas lunch for independents working in the creative industry. And again it was a lovely event. It is a joy to spend an...
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User-driven innovation
Just finished a chapter for a book on knowledge sharing in the creative industry. The book ‘Uncommon Ground: Creative Encounters between Sectors and Disciplines’ will be published by Bis Publishers in...
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Innovation Reading Circle 02
The second meeting of the Innovation Reading Circle was again very interesting. This time the theme was User-Led Innovation.¬†The books we read and discussed were: ‘Democratising Innovation‘ by Eric...
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