The New Seriousness of Design by Lee Sankey - Barclays PLC It’s a wonderful time for design. It is increasingly recognised as part of the literacy of business and is becoming part of the boardroom. However, what are the implications and consequences of this greater role? Design is changing. As it expands and collapses and old adages melt, is design, service design in particular, mindful of new responsibilities and ready to fulfil design’s promise? Or are we too in love with Post-it Notes and workshops?

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Lee Sankey
Design Director
Barclays
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@leesankey

3. It’s a wonderful time for design.
More relevant than ever
Why?
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4. 1 Disruption and change

5. 2 Expectations have changed

6. 3 Rising complexity, distributed value
No longer just a branch and a cheque book

7. 3 Rising complexity, distributed value
Nike, more than just shoes

8. We see…
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9. Designers founding
and running
companies
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10. Agencies
launching their
own products
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11. Design becoming a part of the boardroom

12. Design becoming a core business competency
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13. A new era.
Design has an unprecedented
opportunity to fulfil its potential.
People are listening. Business gets it.
What are the implications of design’s
new significance and having seat at the
business table?
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14. Simply put, design can…
Make or break a business
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Create new realities
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Help address profound global challenges
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16. Are designers ready for the responsibility?
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17. Is Service Design ready?
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18. Service Design?
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19. Service Design?
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20. Service Design?
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21. Brilliant at communicating the ‘how’,
but…
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What was the problem/opportunity?
What was your idea?
What happened?
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22. Is Service Design more in love
with process than outcomes?
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23. Do we want to be defined by
the process or defined
outcomes?
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24. Design is changing.
Shaped by opposing forces
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32. - Expanding role and responsibility
- Collapsing process, blurring of disciplines
- Fusion of ‘materials’
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33. - Expanding role and responsibility
- Collapsing process, blurring of disciplines
- Fusion of ‘materials’
Fundamentally creating New Conditions
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34. - Expanding role and responsibility
- Collapsing process, blurring of disciplines
- Fusion of ‘materials’
Fundamentally creating New Conditions
Implications for design education, design
agencies, in-house teams and design
community
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35. - Expanding role and responsibility
- Collapsing process, blurring of disciplines
- Fusion of ‘materials’
Fundamentally creating New Conditions
Implications for Service Design?
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36. New Conditions & Service Design
When everything is melting, does trying to define
Service Design hinder?
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Services Design (discipline) can be applied top down
but also used bottom up by other disciplines
(mentality). I.e. Service Design itself becoming
‘distributed’ ?
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37. New Conditions
Three Opportunities for Service
Design
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38. 1
The Devil is no
longer in the
details
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39. 1
The Devil’s in
disruption and
the differences
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40. Will the future of banking be
decided by a UI Design?
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41. It’s not just getting the design right.
You need to design the right thing.
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42. 2
What you add, rather than take away
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45. Bland, flat and seamlessly forgettable?
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46. Personality, the differences

47. Watch this video…
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xxw74b_e3-monty-don-s-french-gardens-the-artistic-garden_lifestyle
between 3:24 and 4:52
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48. “Monet wasn’t painting the garden, he
was painting what the garden means.”
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49. 3
Transcend how the service works, to
what it means

50. Summary
New service design mentality for new conditions
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Extend impact to each pillar - strategy, brand,
operations, experience
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Be more than glue/integrator/facilitator. Bridge the
reality gap (make it real)
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As roles and ‘services’ blur work with all ‘materials’
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Convince through doing
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51. Be in love with outcomes as much as process
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52. Thanks!
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Lee Sankey
Design Director, Barclays
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@leesankey