What are great quotes to inspire service design work?

What are great quotes to inspire service design work?

Quotes about Service Design

Service design is 10% design...
90% creating the conditions for design to happen
That means understanding constraints, building relationships with stakeholders, getting funding, winning buy-in…the list goes on
Yet most service design education focuses on the 10%
Why?!

— Lou Downe

Imagine you have two coffee shops right next to each other selling the exact same coffee at the exact same price. Service design is what makes you walk into the one and not the other, come back often and tell your friends about it.

— Marc Fonteijn

Quotes about good services

The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates.

— Gabe Newell

The best customer service is if the customer doesn't need to call you, doesn't need to talk to you. It just works.

— Jeff Bezos

Quotes about service

Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve.
You don’t have to have a college degree to serve.
You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve….
You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love.

— Martin Luther King

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

— Muhammad Ali

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

— Mahatma Gandhi

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

— Douglas Adams

Q&A: Philosophy and Mindset questions about Service Design

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  • ▶️ What are the different stages of the maturity of Service Design within an organization?
  • ▶️ What's the invisible role of the service designer within an organization?
  • Does making things fun have a real impact?

Inspiration

  • How can I create and share a compelling service design vision?
  • What are great quotes to inspire service design work?
  • What does a service design company need to be successful?

Beyond Service Design

  • How can service design skills be used outside of work in day to day life?
  • ▶️ Is Service Design becoming a religion?
  • How can Service Design improve my mental health?
  • Where can I learn more on how to use Service Design in everyday life?

Values in Service Design

  • ▶️ How can service designers help decolonize design?
  • How can I use company values in my Service Design work?
  • How can I spot innovation theatre or Service Design theatre?
  • ▶️ How can I use the company culture in your service design work?

Good and Bad

  • ▶️ Can "bad" service be "good" service?
  • ▶️ Should we really make all experiences less shitty?
  • ▶️ What's too much service?
  • ▶️ Can you design a too good workplace?
  • What are the advantages and disadvantages of using a service design approach?
  • ▶️ What are some of the biggest misunderstandings and myths about service design?
  • Do you have to be a dick to be a great design leader?
  • What are some of the dark sides of Service Design?
  • Will Service Design save the world?

Future and past of Service Design

  • ▶️ How has Service Design changed over the last years?
  • ▶️ What's the history of Service Design?
  • What comes after Service Design?
  • Will AI remplace Service Designers?
  • How can I use AI responsibly in my Service Design work?

How to name things in Service Design

  • Should Service Design have another name?
  • ▶️ How should we call the people we serve?
  • What's the difference between playful experiences and gamified experiences?

Efficiency and Service Design

  • How to not lose the time we save from better tools and processes?