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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...
ISDI Service Design Learning Philosophy
We discovered in our own learning journey among us here, that collecting a bunch of clever techniques was only a small part of learning service design. We asked ourselves: What are service designers doing once they have learned a technique, say, a service blueprint or...
So, How Do You Define Service Design?
Service design is becoming widely recognized across the globe as the way to develop and improve lines of services. Yet 35 years after its designation there remain discrepancies over the definition. To that point, service design is often confused with other...
Expectations Drive the Success or Failure of Service Experiences
What Makes a Service Succeed or Fail? Expectations: How is it that a meal at McDonald’s often hits the spot, yet a steak dinner costing three times as much can turn out to be an awful experience?
Service Designers Avoid Failures by Managing User Expectations
The state of Maryland, USA, is pretty progressive by most standards. They were the first to offer its residents access to universal healthcare, to ban nuclear arms (and pushed to remove 1950’s era silos), and is also known in municipal circles for pioneering...
Looking for an Invite to a Clubhouse Service Experience? Here’s a Self-Described Experience From the Eyes of a Service Designer
I was invited to join Clubhouse by my 23-year-old daughter who secured her code from a work colleague. She insisted I get on to observe the experience from the perspective of a service designer. She’s always on the lookout for finding me new or novel experiences.
Using Service Designers For Loyalty Programs
I just bought my third vacuum in three years. But this time I bought a well-engineered, pricey model from Germany rather than one of those plastic ones that can be found stacked up along department store aisles. The one I bought is about twice the cost of the others,...
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