▶️ How can I use my past career when transitioning to Service Design?
▶️ How can I use my past career when transitioning to Service Design?
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
The original question
As a professional whose expereience's been in other Design fields transitioning to UX, I reframed previous projects in a UX context. I believe something similar could be used for Service Design.
Additional note
Even projects you did in the past as an architect use skills that are used in Service Design. So when you transition you can, for example in a portfolio, highlight what skills, technics, tools and mindsets that Service Designers use, you used in your previous practice.
In fact a lot of the design skills are the same between marketing, graphic design, UX design, product design, etc. Sometimes you just have to find how these things you do are called in another discipline to help people understand you already come with a lot of practice.
Natalia Riley's tips
The team at Snook wrote an article called "Transitioning Careers — Advice from the Snook Service Design team" In the article you'll find tips from Natalia Riley who pivoted into service design from an academic background in psychology and a career in communications and marketing strategy. Here a summary of her tips:
Make it personal.
Learn by doing.
Create a portfolio.
Show, don’t tell.
Adopt the service design mindset.
Be relentlessly curious.
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