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2020-2021 Service Design Survey
The International Service Design, a professional development organization solely dedicated to improving the skills and knowledge of service designers, will publish its annual survey in a fortnight. The results include salaries of service designers, which industries...
Do You Have What It Takes? A Service Design Job Description
We asked practitioners and employers for the knowledge and skills required of a service designer. For employers, we asked how they evaluate candidates. For service designers, we asked what knowledge and skills they used in their work. Basic Understanding – That the...
A Free Assessment Now Available For Service Designers And Those Who Employ Them
The International Service Design Institute’s Assessment is for Service Designers to Gauge Their Skills (Tampa, Fl., August 2021)— The International Service Design Institute, the only organization solely dedicated to the professional development of service designers,...
An Introduction To Service Design
An excerpt from ISDI’s The Apprentice Part I, from the three-part Service Designer’s series of books and courses. Service designers are thrust into any number of interesting and rewarding challenges as they create services and improve existing ones. The field of...
Service Design and Innovation (An excerpt from The Apprentice)
An excerpt from ISDI’s The Apprentice Part I, from the three-part Service Designer’s series of books and courses. SERVICE DESIGN AND DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION There is a raging debate among economists whether we can innovate our way out of a slowing economy due to a...
Consumer Distrust is Putting Pressure on Service Providers
We now live in an era of consumer distrust, which is influencing some of our lifestyle choices, some psychologists tell us. Many of us now question others’ motives before making decisions for ourselves. Two examples are the lengths we go to protect our privacy and...
Service Designers Work In Every Service Sector, New Poll Results Show
Service designers work across all economic sectors, signaling the widespread use of service design skills and knowledge, according to results of a recent survey of 222 service designers from around the world. Designers said many executives desire the techniques and...
Conclusion: Service Design is Ideal for Executive Problem Solving
The Value of Service Design to ProvidersLeading service providers say their chief concerns are revenue, growth, and people, according to a number of recent studies. When you otherwise take out normal fluctuations in the economy, i.e. recessions, these issues remain...
The Biden Administration is Counting on the Service Sector to Help Fund its Ambitious Agenda – A Challenge for Service Designers
Here in the U.S., the news is crowded with stories about President Joe Biden’s ambitious federal improvement plans that could double the nation’s short-term spending to $14 trillion. The ability for the government to afford these programs rests on quality services, a...
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