Civic Service Design Process

Civic Service Design Process



A bit of context 

The Civic Service Design is an organization focused on making public services more effective and more accessible to New Yorkers. 

What I like about it 

The process is pretty simple to understand abs I think that’s one of its big strength. In fact the titles of the stages don’t feel like the usual academic designery jargon words but instead they feel like tips that a friend would give. For example, “Try things out” is really way more natural that the fancy “prototyping” world for the majority of people out there.

The team behind the Civic Service Design process also does a great job by documenting all the different stages of the process with à in depth blog article.  You’ll find those blog posts on their home page. 

Go deeper 

If you want to go deeper I suggest you read the blog post What is civic design? published by the team where you can also find direct links to the blog posts that detail each stage of their service design process. By the way, I first found the image of their service design process on this page. 

Course: What is the Service design process?

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Introduction

  • Welcome2
  • Why I created this course3
  • Process versus mindset

Service Design Processes by academics and authors

  • Introduction
  • Stickdorn Service Design Process
  • Service Design Process by Moritz 20053
  • Kuer Process Model1
  • Austin Center for Design process model with culture & service gaps
  • New Service Development Cycle
  • Scheuing and Johnson Service Design Process
  • Connect Consortium Innovation process
  • Service innovation process based on foresight and service design

In house Service Design Processes

  • Introduction
  • Capital One Service Design Process
  • Service Design Framework by BT

Consultancies Service Design Process

  • Introduction
  • Evenson and Dubberly Service Design process1
  • Continuous Service Design by Futurice2
  • Frog Service Design Process2
  • Koos service design
  • The "old" Livework's Service Design Process
  • The "new" Livework's Service Design Process
  • Service and Business Design Process by Livework
  • Engine Service Design Process
  • Whitespace's Enterprise Service Design Process
  • Nile's Service Design and Future Forecasting2
  • Manyone's Service Design Process

Public Service Design Processes

  • Introduction
  • Service Design Playbook by British Columbia Government Public Service1
  • Civic Service Design Process
  • Service Standard by the UK Government Digital Service 2
  • Digital Service Standard criteria by the Australian Digital Tranformation Agency
  • The Scottish Approach to Service Design (SAtSD)1
  • Project X's innovation model by Innovationsguiden
  • Colour-in City design process
  • Go further: A guide for the application of Service Design in public organizations2
  • Service design and delivery process by the Digitial Transformation Agency of the Australian Government

Design process that inspire Service Designers

  • Introduction
  • D. School Design Thinking
  • Human Centered Design by Design Kit and IDEO
  • Double Diamond by The Design Council
  • The Design Squiggle by Damien Newman
  • Google Design Sprint
  • Design Sprint Quarter by Design Sprint LTD
  • Entreprise Design Thinking by IBM
  • Strategy development process by ABB
  • Living Lab's Innovation Process

Going further

  • Bravo
  • But remember don't become a process asshole
  • The limitation of the project view
  • Books and articles to go further
  • Next recommended course and a little 🎁
  • Thank you note1