What are skills you recommend for a service designer
What are skills you recommend for a service designer
Service Design Questions and Answers
Basics of Service Design
Basics of Service Design
Examples of good Service Design
Examples of good Service Design
Learning Service Design
Learning Service Design
Service Design and others fields
Service Design and others fields
Service Design tools, apps and methods
Service Design tools, apps and methods
Service Blueprints and Journey Maps
Service Blueprints and Journey Maps
Service Design as a career
Service Design as a career
Hiring service designers
Hiring service designers
Coaching and Service Design
Coaching and Service Design
Service Design portfolio
Service Design portfolio
Service Design workshops and facilitation
Service Design workshops and facilitation
Service Design and Ideation
Service Design and Ideation
Service Design and research
Service Design and research
Service Design and Presentations
Service Design and Presentations
Service Design Principles
Service Design Principles
Service Design projects
Service Design projects
Service Design Books
Service Design Books
Accessibility and Service Design
Accessibility and Service Design
Sustainability and Service Design
Sustainability and Service Design
Service Design in government
Service Design in government
Service Design Philosophy and Mindset
Service Design Philosophy and Mindset
Service Design in Switzerland
Service Design in Switzerland
My two cents
The first skill that I had to learn the hard way but that I think is valuable to any service designer is project management. Once you have this skillset, you can not only be someone who produces but also someone who organises bigger projects.
I've also noticed that there were skills I had before coming to Service Design that proved to be extremely useful:
Graphic design: being able to quickly make a good-looking presentation or prototype made me so much faster than other colleagues.
Writing: a good chunk of the service design work I do is summarising either research elements, decisions made in a workshop or an idea. Not being afraid of writing helps a lot.
Finally, a bonus skill if you already have all of this is to understand how technology works. You don't have to be a coder per se, but at least understand what's possible and what isn't. Having built something with no code tools like bubble or Glide, for example, is a good way to get into that mode.
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