Design, User and UX research too often happens through user testing and focus groups in relatively sterile lab-like environments that result in lengthy written or numerical reports. Here at STBY we aim to conduct design research that provides rich qualitative insight into individual's lives, using film and photography to provide engaging materials to our client teams, often groups of multidisciplinary designers.
Through a project co-funded by Innovate UK, we've published Viewfinders: Thoughts on Visual Research, which explores the rich potential photography, film and beyond hold for design research. Bas Raijmakers and Samantha Miller co-authored and edited a collection of writing that includes learnings from STBY projects, inspiration from fields such as documentary film, and relevant project examples ranging from speculative design to art photography.
With a special contribution from Goldsmiths' Interaction Research Studio on 'Thinking with Pictures', Viewfinders is a publication not to miss - of interest to those in research, design, innovation, academia, industry and any combination thereof.
