Belonging & Belongings: Design Research Through Visual Explorations
Together with Daijiro Mizuno from Keio University Japan, Geke van Dijk and Bas Raijmakers from STBY have co-authored a paper for the annual IASDR conference in Tokyo (International Association of...
View ArticleOpen Innovation with a service design approach
Paper on Open Innovation project for Elsevier. Written by Geke van Dijk, Bas Raijmakers, Michiel van der Heyden en Toke Barter. Presented at the international Service Design conference in Amsterdam...
View ArticleCreative Thinking
For the recently submitted proposal for a new Dutch innovation programme demonstrating the added value of the creative thinking for business and economy, Geke van Dijk has written a contribution...
View ArticleSTBY Magazine – Service Innovation Inspired by People
Motivated by the limited amount of literature on design research and service design currently available, we initiated STBY magazine. The first issue was published and distributed to clients, prospects...
View ArticleCustomer Talk article on Service Design
One of the editors of the online community for customer-focused businesses and innovative marketing has written an introduction on Service Design, based on interviews with Geke van Dijk from STBY and...
View ArticleSay yes to the mess!
Geke van Dijk wrote an article on Molblog (Dutch Marketing Magazine) on the benefits of design research for service innovation. ‘Say yes to the mess’ discusses how empathic research into everyday life...
View ArticleService Design for Local Government
Our project with the City of Amsterdam is featured on the national online knowledge sharing site for civil servants operated by KING. The project helped the local Amsterdam government to improve their...
View ArticleInnovation Models
In January a new book on Models for Service Innovation was published in The Netherlands by Van Duuren Media. The editors are Frank Kwakman en Ruud Smeulders. The title of the book is ‘Groot Innovatie...
View ArticleDesign Transitions
A new book that features our work was recently launched: ‘Design Transitions’ by Joyce Yee, Emma Jefferies and Lauren Tan. This book presents a series of stories on how design is changing around the...
View ArticleStrategic Pilots
Design research offers organisations an experimental, open approach to strategy development. A pilot project is an effective way to start figuring out what an innovation program might contain and...
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