What’s a smart way to illustrate a Service Design Principle?

What’s a smart way to illustrate a Service Design Principle?

In short: take three photos, one from far away to give the context, one near and one zoomed in the part that makes the experience great or bad.

Taking a picture of the experience you went through that inspired a Service Design Principle is smart.

What’s even smarter is to shoot three photos:

  1. A wide shot: that shows the full context

  2. A medium shot: that shows the specific element of the experience or interaction that inspired you

  3. A close up shot: that shows this element in much more details

By having these three photos you are following a classical way to tell a story that is used in journalism or cinema where you first establish the scene and then slowly zoom in on the particular element.

Thanks to Monse a participant of the Service Design Book Club who joined for the review of my book Service Design Principles 1-100 who inspired this idea.

Q&A: Service Design Principles Library

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The basics of Service Design Principles

  • ▶️ What's a Service Design Principle?
  • ▶️ Are Service Design principles metaphors or literal?
  • Where do principles come from?
  • What makes a good Service Design Principle?

Writing Service Design Principles

  • How to write a Service Design Principle?
  • How to write a good Service Design principle title
  • How to find the right level of depth for a Service Design Principle?
  • ▶️ How many Principles can you extract from one story?
  • ▶️ I don't like to write, how to write a Service Design Principle?
  • ▶️ How do I edit the text of my Service Design Principles
  • How can I make it easier to come back and edit a Service Design Principle?
  • ▶️ What are apps that make it faster to write Service Design Principles?
  • ▶️ What are apps that help write clearer Service Design Principles?
  • How do Service Design Principles evolve over time?
  • How to name your Service Design Principles?
  • ▶️ What are ethical considerations when building a Service Design Principles Library?
  • ▶️ Where can I find Service Design Principles ideas and inspirations?
  • How long should my principles be?
  • Should my principles be opinionated?
  • What’s a smart way to illustrate a Service Design Principle?

Building a principles library

  • ▶️ What is a Service Design Principles Library?
  • ▶️ Why should I create my own principles library?
  • How to start your own Service Design Principle library?
  • ▶️ What's the minimal version of a Service Design Library?
  • ▶️ How does a Service Design Principle Library look like?
  • ▶️ What are the different types of Service Design Libraries?
  • ▶️ What are the different profiles of people creating a Service Design Library?
  • ▶️ What's the mindset of someone who builds his own Service Design Principles Library?
  • ▶️ How to organize your Service Design Principles Library?
  • ▶️ What tools to use to create your own Service Design Principles Library?
  • How do I manage the references of my Service Design Principles?
  • ▶️ What are recommended books to start your Service Design Library?

The habit of collecting Service Design Principles

  • What are metrics you can track in your service design principle library?
  • ▶️ What are healthy goals to have for a Service Design Principles Library?
  • ▶️ What are daily practices I could have to build my own Service Design Library?
  • ▶️ How can you create your writing routine?
  • ▶️ How hard should you work on your Service Design Principles Library?
  • ▶️ How to keep the motivation when building a Principles Library over years

Shared Principles Library and Library for teams

  • How to pitch the value of Service Design principles?
  • What are the advantages of writing your Service Design Principles in the open and how to do it?
  • ▶️ Should you co-create service design principles?
  • ▶️ How to define principles for a project?
  • ▶️ How to build a Service Design Library Principles for a team?
  • ▶️ How can you make a Service Design Principles Library that is useful for others too?