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Understanding Music Streaming for Kids
Spotify Kids is a new standalone app by Spotify, designed for families to enjoy a safe space to explore kid-friendly audio. Informing the development of this new app in 2019, STBY worked with Spotify...
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Speculative design with MSF
In collaboration with our Indian REACH partner Quicksand, we helped Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) to rethink their role as a global organisation within the future landscape of humanitarian work. At...
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Exploring listening experiences
Stations, the new app introduced by Spotify in the US, offers a radio-like listening experience for users who don’t tend to curate their own playlists and listen in a more ‘low-effort’ way. STBY...
View ArticleThis is Doing: Remote Flexible Training
STBY is proud to be one of the founding partners of the new online training platform This is Doing. Anyone interested in learning more about innovation, design and research will probably find more...
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Exploring Remote Teamwork
Over the past decade, as more digital tools have become available for remote collaboration, and more organisations have embraced flexible working, teamworkers have gradually grown accustomed to...
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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...
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Pioneers: Thoughts on Global Design Research
We are happy to share our latest publication exploring global design research through STBY’s experience alongside our global network and partners. As the world becomes increasingly global and...
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‘No place for sex trafficking’ program
This week the No Place for Sex Trafficking website launches in the Netherlands. This is the result of the What Design Can Do (WDCD) No Minor Thing challenge in 2018, for which STBY, as the research...
View ArticleExplorers: Thoughts on Mapping in Design Research
As designers and researchers grapple with more systemic issues, we need to hone our tools and refine our language. Visualising complexity is one of the key ways that we add value in highly...
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Our latest publication: Explorers
Lockdown has been tough in many ways, but it has also allowed us to put our heads down and pull together our latest publication, Explorers: Thoughts on Mapping in Design Research. As a somewhat bleak...
View ArticleEmerging new rituals at STBY
In times of uncertainty people have a greater need for rituals, anthropologists have long observed. Covid-19 drastically changed the way we live and work around the world, and obviously also at STBY....
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Beyond Human Centred Design
COVID19 has given the world the time to rest, and the opportunity for us to rethink the way we live. It has also revealed how inseparable we are with the natural world. Not only because we as humans...
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Supporting Social Enterprises around the world
HIVOS asked STBY to collaborate on the creation of a practical and inspiring Playbook for Social Enterprise Support. In an intensive and co-creative 3-day sprint with a strong international team from...
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Understanding how we engage with health information during an epidemic
In 2020, in the midst of a pandemic that the world is trying to make sense of while living through it, STBY conducted two research projects on the impact and relationship with health and science...
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Studying digital product families
Interested in how to do user research on how people use digital product families? At STBY we learnt a few lessons, and think there are increasing opportunities for design researchers and service...
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Book chapter: Streetlabs as a co-creative approach to Research Through Design
The book ‘Seeing The City, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Study of the Urban’, provides an essential collection of methodologies for studying the city from multiple, interdisciplinary, and...
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Understanding new forms of care in times of an pandemic
Early 2020, the Covid-19 global pandemic quickly spread and affected the lives of billions around the globe, including the members of the Reach Network. We felt a strong need to come together as a...
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Compiling global design briefs for the climate
As the global research partner of What Design Can Do, STBY conducted research on the impact of waste and consumerism on climate change and compiled a global design briefing and five local city...
View ArticleMagazine: Natural gas-free living in The Netherlands
The magazine ‘Aardgasvrij wonen’ (Natural gas-free living) presents the results of four related research projects that explored which considerations, issues or themes Dutch residents encounter when it...
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How to shift a system through design
To change a system is a long term effort. It can only happen gradually, over time. With our research for What Design Can Do design challenges, we contribute to system change. As for all WDCD design...
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