International Service Design Institute
Comprehensive Service Design Courses
The Apprentice
Learn what makes a service successful in this course. The Apprentice introduces service design, the role of a service designer, some of the popular tools, and includes ideation models for coming up with new services.
The Journeyman
Learn to use an Influence Model, a Journey Map, a Blueprint and Touchpoints — the common tools of service design. The Journeyman includes sequential, step-by-step instructions plus descriptive-use case studies.
The Master
Learn to prototype a service, work with feedback, diagnose service problems, recover services and test and measure user satisfaction. The Master is the only service design course of its type that helps service designers take their services to greater success.
What You Can Expect
Each course builds on the other so learners can obtain a foundation of Service Design through The Apprentice, use models and tools from The Journeyman, and test and diagnose with The Master.
After completing the three courses in succession, learners will gain the skills to function as a service designer and with the confidence to build and improve services. In fact, we believe our learners will have more knowledge than many others claiming to be service designers.
Each course includes a digital textbook, easy-to-follow videos and audio, case studies, handouts, practice exercises, and quizzes, along with other learning aides. Upon complete of all three courses, graduates will receive credentials suitable for curricula vitae.
How Courses Are Structured
The Apprentice
Recognize a service, learn what separates Service Design from other fields, and understand the user-centric approach. The user-centric approach leads to understanding the components of successful services, and how to use models to achieve those success.
Then roll your sleeves up and begin designing a service from learning to identify and shape ideal target audiences.
Topics Covered:
1. Defining a Service
2. Satisfactory Experiences
3. Unpacking Service Design
4. People, Process and Technology
5. Setting Up Organizations For Success
6. Selecting, Cultivating & Nurturing Users
7. Building a Loyal Fan Base
8. The Demand for Service Design
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The Journeyman
Building upon the user-centric approach, learners move through a succession of models and exercises. Each one of them is stripped down to its fundamentals, so learners can adopt them to their individual situations.
The Journeyman covers Demand Models, Journey Maps, Service Blueprints, and Touchpoints.
Topics Covered:
1. Meeting User Needs
2. Shaping User Experiences
3. Influencing Users
4. User Journeys
5. Service Blueprints
6. Touchpoints
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The Master (Coming Soon)
Many services fail at along various points. And those who manage services are responsible but don’t always know what went wrong, or the risks ahead.
The Master is a compendium of practical, proven methods for diagnosing, fixing and improving services. This course is for those with an understanding of Service Design and want an expertise that leads to a leadership perspective in any service field.
Instructors
Steven J. Slater
As a service design pioneer, Steven has put his skills to use for building lines of service, otherwise known as new lines of business. He practices service design from a systems engineering approach supported by modeling and analytics.
For nearly twenty-five years, Steven has successfully transformed the performance of a wide range of organizations in professional services, healthcare, financial services, hospitality, energy and utilities, consumer packaged goods, telecommunications and IT as well as government agencies, trade groups, fundraising organizations, and cause-related nonprofits through Service Design techniques.
Naomi Lantzman
Naomi Lantzman has developed dozens of digital marketing, web development and graphic design courses for universities and colleges, and continues to teach in classrooms and online for a number of colleges and universities.
Specializing in helping non-profit fundraising organizations grow their number of donors and their donations, she uses service design methods and tools, including JourneyMaps maps, digital communications, and touchpoints. Naomi also provides consulting services and works closely with commercial businesses, as well, developing e-commerce experiences and complete marketing campaigns.
More Learning Options
Browse our digital bookshelf and find textbooks, templates and resources to enhance your Service Design learning.
