Frog Service Design Process

Frog Service Design Process

A bit of context 

frog is a global design and innovation consultancy. 

For fifty years, frog has been focused on growing organisations by ‘launching new businesses and creating world-class customer experiences at scale.’ 

At the time of writing, frog has studios worldwide in these fancy cities: San Francisco, Austin, New York, Boston, Mexico City, London, Madrid, Paris, Milan, Munich, Malmö, Toulouse, Lyon, Delhi, Bangalore and Shanghai.


What I like about it 

The first thing I particularly like about this process is its simplicity. Three steps is definitely an easy structure to remember.
The second aspect that I really like is that the process shows that each step is about making a transformation. The first step is about transforming "Analysis" into "Insights", or as its written in the process "Analysis Becomes Insights". The second step is "Insights Become Ideas", and the third "Ideas Become Products". These very short description make it clear with what you start the the process, and what is the end deliverable.
As a few other design processes do, this process by the team at Frog also shows examples of activities you can perform during each step. This helps answer the question that many might have after reading the title and description: "But how the hell do I get there?".  

Go deeper 

I found the picture of this process in an article called "Design Thinking In Action" by Charlotte Chapman. In this article Charlotte shares her notes and thinking after following a workshop on November 17th, 2016 to ran by frog design during the Stanford Innovation Week on the topic of  "Remaking Transportation" 

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