This is service design thinking.
Basics — Tools — Cases
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Preface
time, no matter whether you’re a student,
This book aims to be a textbook on service design thinking –
an interdisciplinary approach that offers great value for
entrepreneurs and innovators in the field of services. No
matter whether service design thinking already made it into
your everyday vocabulary or you just hear about this the very
first
teacher,
researcher, manager or company owner, and no matter
whether
in design, management,
engineering or any other profession, this book will serve you
as an introduction, reference and case study book. Moreover,
it is supposed to be a source of inspiration and motivation for
your future work.
your background is
In particular,
The book is structured into three main parts. Basics illustrates
the fundamental concepts of service design thinking and its
relation to service marketing.
this chapter
explains various gateways into service design thinking from
backgrounds like product design, graphic design, interaction
design and design ethnography, but also from strategic
management and operations management and in addition
rather new fields like social design. Tools explains the
iterative process of designing services and shows methods
and tools of service design as a kind of toolkit that we hope
you will be able to implement in your own work. Cases
exemplifies how the basics, processes and tools come
together through five different case studies. At the end of the
book, service design thinking is wrapped up in three articles
on how motivation as a fundamen-tal component of human
behaviour
is a precondition for designing services, an
overview of recent service design research publications, and
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through consideration of how service design thinking
integrates with other philosophical approaches. However,
before we start with the actual content, the design beyond the
design provides a summary of how we adopted a service
design thinking approach to the design of this book itself and
besides that you’ll find a short description on how to use this
book.
It
is not only created for
This book project attempted to follow the principle of
practice-what-you-preach.
the
growing service design community but to a large extent by
and with the service design community. Thus, we want to
thank all our co-authors, contributors and everyone who
provided feedback on the publication. We have tried to
mention everyone who helped us during the progress of this
project and we apologise if we have forgotten someone along
the way. There are a few people, we want to thank personally.
First and foremost we want
to thank Fergus Bisset who
supported the project from the start, by setting up the first
crowdsourcing website, right
through to co-editing most
contributions. Furthermore, Bas Raijmakers, Geke van Dijk
and Luke Kelly helped us reviewing, editing and illustrating
the tools and methods. Finally, we want
to thank BIS
publishers, namely Rudolf van Wezel, for his belief in this
project and his great support!
Mostly, however, we want to thank you – the reader. Only
your interest
in this book and your interpretation of the
information contained in it generates real value from this
project! We thus look forward to hearing more about the
people reading it, how you are using it and what you think
about it. So, please keep in touch!
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The editors, Marc & Jakob, October 2010
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The design beyond the design: A different approach to
designing a textbook
Marc Stickdorn
Jakob Schneider
While colloquially the word design is used to refer to the
appearance or styling of a particular product or outcome, the
proper meaning goes far beyond that. In particular,
the
approach of service design refers to the process of designing
rather than to its outcome. The outcome of a service design
abstract
process
can
organisational
service
experiences and even concrete physical objects.
have
rather
structures, operation processes,
various
forms:
Since service design is a still young and emerging approach,
service design education is even younger and just developing.
There are various courses and recently even study programs
on service design, but so far there are no textbooks explaining
this approach. One could argue that an approach like this does
not need a textbook, since it is something you potentially
have to learn by doing. Without a doubt, you cannot learn
what service design is and how to do it just from a textbook.
You need to try, fail, learn from your mistakes, improve, try
again and thus educate yourself.
Service design education is therefore rather a kind of briefing
and tutoring process. Besides explaining the big picture, it is
all about giving hints, proposing methods and tools, and
showing how to use them while working on a project. The
main question we asked ourselves in spring 2009 was how
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could we make teaching and learning service design easier
and more pleasurable?
Motivation and inspiration
Based on the insights of a service design course Marc gave in
spring 2009, we started a series of interviews with both
service design course participants and educators to understand
what
the main difficulties are of learning how to design
services. In this context we tried to understand who teaches
service design? What is the content and how is it delivered?
In our interviews we discovered the need for a serious and
static reference opposed to the ever changing blogosphere.
start
this
project.
the
principle
Following
Who attends respective courses and workshops? Answering
these questions gave us the motivation and initial inspiration
to
of
practice-what-you-preach, we applied methods and tools of
service design on the process of designing this first textbook
on service design. Thus we consider this book rather as a
service to you – the reader – than as a mere physical object
we
experienced
sustainability of print media made us do a book rather than a
website or App. Moreover, in our interviews we discovered
the need for a serious and static reference opposed to the
ever-changing blogosphere. Besides, a book is still one of the
most reliable forms of media; a book is portable, tangible,
durable and never faces problems of low battery or bad
reception.
sale. The
offer
for
durability
and
Since service design is an interdisciplinary approach, different
people teach and learn service design in different ways; all of
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