Design by Fire
Design by fireOn 13 October we gave a talk at the one-day seminar Design by Fire in Utrecht, organised by HuH (Haring institute of Happiness) and CHI Nederland. One of the presentations that preceded...
View ArticlePassionate for People
by Geke van Dijk and Bas Raijmakers. Presented at the Design by Fire conference on 23 October 2007 in Utrecht, NL. (8.4 Mb, excluding video fragments) No related posts.
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Design Of The Times
While we were in Newcastle for the Intersections conference, we also visited the design exhibitions that were organized around the town.  Many of the exhibitions reflected on sustainability and showed...
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Payments by mobile and rfid
While in Japan, we obviously kept an eye open for machines that dealt with payments by either mobiles or rfid tags. These lockers in the Tokyo underground can be paid for by using your public transport...
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Hardcopy hyperlinks
¬†What amazed me most when we were touring Japan, were the hardcopy hyperlinks we gradually learned to spot everywhere around us. At first I didn’t notice them, because there were already so many...
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Spunk//STBY
We have initiated a research joint venture with Spunk. This group of Dutch young, dynamic and highly opinionated people (16-19 years old) is never afraid to tackle any subject head on from their own...
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Geke van Dijk
Geke, along with Bas, is a co-founder of STBY, and currently serves as our strategy director. An expert in the field of Consumer Behaviour Research and Human-Computer Interaction, Geke also specialises...
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Bas Raijmakers
Bas Raijmakers is creative director at STBY, and along with Geke, one of our founders. Like all of our senior design researchers, Bas has been involved with a wide range of different service design...
View ArticleConsumer-centered innovation
I just came across this quote in an article in Business Week. It pretty much sums op why the social research we do is so timely and useful to our clients. “The customer replaces the direct competitor...
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FORUM
For the Dutch Institute for Multicultural Development FORUM, a highly acclaimed knowledge base on diversity, we have completed a two-step research project informing the evaluation and innovation of...
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 ArticleUsers are the energizers of multidisciplinary development
by Bas Raijmakers, for Lost Boys Amsterdam. Presented at the Sigchi.nl conference 2002. (PDF, 280 KB)
View ArticleShopping pleasure at Bol.com
by Bas Raijmakers. Published in Usability РNutzerfreundliches Web-Design by Markus Beier and Vittoria von Gizicky (eds.), Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2002. (English translation, PDF, 768 KB))
View ArticleUsability testing is a means, not a goal
by Bas Raijmakers. Published in Usability РNutzerfreundliches Web-Design by Markus Beier and Vittoria von Gizicky (eds.), Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2002. (English translation, PDF, 156 KB)
View ArticleUser research als inspiratiebron voor webontwerpers
(Usability research as source of inspiration for web designers)¬†by Bas Raijmakers.¬†Chapter in the book ‘Webontwerp’ in the series ‘Monografi√´n over vormgeving’.¬†Published for Dutch art students by...
View ArticleTrackrecord 1993-2003
The founders of STBY, Geke van Dijk and Bas Raijmakers, have been active in the field of interactive media and technology from the early days of public internet access in Europe. Since 1993 we have...
View ArticleApplying User Context Analysis in evaluations of e-commerce environments.
by Geke van Dijk. Position paper for the workshop Total Customer Experience during the conference Interact 2003, Zurich, CH. (PDF 80 KB).
View ArticlePLANTS
STBY was the coordinator of a creative workshop for the European funded pilotproject PLANTS. In Patras (Greece) an international group of experts from various fields (academy, design, enginering)...
View ArticleNWO-MES
NWO is the Dutch national council for scientific research. NWO-MES is the department that funds research on Society and the Electronic Highway. STBY did an expert review of their website and advised on...
View ArticleNew media in everyday life
It’s tempting to make a short manifesto of this post, but I’ll save that for later ;-). This blog is just a daily notebook for things related to our research into new media and everyday life. Have a...
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