A Brief Guide to Service Design (UX Brighton) by Paul Thurston & Nick Marsh

A brief guide to service design (and why it ma?ers for UX people) UX Brighton – Jan 2010

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1. A brief guide to service design 2. Some examples 3. Why UX people should care

1. A brief guide to service design

Services are everywhere

Services are important

Services are designed by everyone, all the Ime

And generally not very well! Source: Bain Customer-Led Growth diagnostic questionaire;Satmetrix Net Promoter database

So, what can ‘design’ bring to improving service experiences? Two, broad and overlapping areas

Service Design Doing & Thinking

Service Design Doing & Thinking Most projects involve a bit of both…

Design is useful for improving services because it… is able to take a broad viewpoint provides new methods of engaging customers is a ﬂexible process can make complicated things simple deliver be;er outcomes

Service Design Thinking The use of design approaches and methods as an organisa>onal strategy. (i.e -‐ a process)

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2. Some Examples Companies & Projects

OrganisaIons that use design doing + thinking

The NHS

Building a ‘design thinking mentality’ www.insItute.nhs.uk

So, two diﬀerent uses for the term service design

Very much like the two versions of User Experience Design

User Experience Design Doing & Thinking

User Experience Design Doing & Thinking Most projects involve a bit of both…

So, Service Design and User Experience Design aren’t really that diﬀerent. UX design doing UX design thinking The design of new digital user PuHng people and their experiences across hardware and experiences at the heart of the soIware interfaces design process. SD design doing SD design thinking The design of new services, The use of design approaches experiences and touchpoints. and methods as an organisa>onal strategy.

But, why should people interested in UX care about service design?

1. Service design can (probably) help you make more money 2. Service design (may) help you get more excited about your work

1. Service design can (probably) help you make more money 2. Service design (may) help you get more excited about your work SD is a great new business development tool that opens doors to new organisaIons and new bits of organisaIons (bits that impact on the customer)

1. Service design can (probably) help you make more money 2. Service design (may) help you get more excited about your work SD enables you to move up the ‘value chain’ and have conversaIons about projects at an earlier stage – thus shaping the work more, and creaIng bigger projects

1. Service design can (probably) help you make more money 2. Service design (may) help you get more excited about your work Broadly focused, conscienIous, UX people are doing SD anyway – UCD, prototyping, visualising etc

6 Ips for geang more into service design

1: Have one killer case study! You get the work you do… And you get the work you talk about…

2: You don’t win SD projects talking about UX

3: Start by selling user research projects with a broad focus

4: Make sure you’re selling to the right people

5: Make sure you like designing strategies, running workshops, thinking about business models and so on.

6: Work on stuﬀ that ma?ers to you and have a great story about why you’re doing it.

choosenick.com paulthurston.co.uk Service Design is new and exci>ng, explore and help deﬁne it here: servicedesigning.org

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