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Service Design Q&A Library

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Find an answer to your Service Design Question in these answers written by Daniele, your fellow Service Design nerd.

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Service Design 101

What are the essential things to know about Service Design when you start with it?

Q&A: Basics of Service Design

  • 11 Lessons

Learn the basics of what is Service Design with these questions.

Q&A Value and impact of Service Design?

  • 6 Lessons

What are the key numbers and way to show that Service Design has a great Return on Investment?

Q&A: Examples of good Service Design

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What are examples of existing services that deliver a great customer experience and are therefore exemplary at Service Design?

Service Design Education

How can you learn and teach Service Design?

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Q&A Learning Service Design

  • 24 Lessons

These questions will help you in your journey into learning Service Design. By the way, welcome in the Service Design community!

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Q&A Teaching Service Design

  • 14 Lessons

How do you teach Service Design to the next generation of service designers?

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Q&A: Coaching and Service Design

  • 14 Lessons

Learn coaching skills that you can use during your Service Design and projects to help colleagues, partners or stakeholders.

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Q&A: Books that help for Service Design work

  • 9 Lessons

What are interesting books to read for Service Design practitioners?

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Q&A: Academic and scientific view of Service Design

  • 4 Lessons

Discover how academics and the scientific community explores the topic of Service Design.

Service Design as a career

What are all the things you should know if you want to make Service Design your profession?

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Q&A: Career in Service Design

  • 34 Lessons

Interested in starting a career in Service Design? Or maybe even interested in starting your own Service Design agency? Read these questions and answers.

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Q&A: Hiring service designers

  • 3 Lessons

How can you find the right talents for your Service Design team?

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Q&A: Portfolio for Service Design

  • 12 Lessons

Learn what it takes to build a portfolio that gets you hired as a service designer.

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Service Design Skills

What are key skills that help you do better Service Design work?

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Q&A: Research in Service Design

  • 36 Lessons

How to do research activities as a Service Design practitioner?

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Q&A: Ideation and Service Design

  • 2 Lessons

How can you find good ideas to improve your services or products and how can you make sure you continue to work on the best ones?

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Q&A: Prototyping and Service Design

  • 10 Lessons

How can you make a first shitty draft of your new service ideas?

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Q&A: Workshops and facilitation with Service Design

  • 37 Lessons

Questions about how to use workshops and better facilitate meetings in Service Design projects.

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Q&A: Service Blueprints and Journey Maps

  • 26 Lessons

The Service Blueprint is the key and maybe most unique Service Design tool out there.

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Q&A: Presentations and Service Design

  • 14 Lessons

Research reports, pitch decks, workshop slides. As a service designer presentations are an important tool to master to share information, test ideas and motivate people. In this section, you'll learn how to create better presentations with a touch of Service Design.

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Q&A: Tools and methods for Service Design

  • 12 Lessons

Service Designers steal a lot of tools and methods from other fields but they have also a few of their own.

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Q&A: Digital Apps for Service Design

  • 10 Lessons

What are digital tools and apps that can make your Service Design work better and more efficient?

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Q&A: Design Sprints and Service Design

  • 36 Lessons

How can you use and adapt the classical 5-day Design Sprint in Service Design projects?

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Q&A: Building a Service Design community

  • 6 Lessons

How can build and grow a community of Service Design enthusiasts?

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Q&A: Lobbying and Networking in Service Design

  • 1 Lesson

Discover how you can motivate people to support you in your Service Design projects.

Service Design projects

How can we run Service Design projects, internally or in government?

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Q&A: In-House Service Design

  • 7 Lessons

How can Service Design professionals be embeded within an organization?

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Q&A: Service Design Projects

  • 12 Lessons

How can you start, run and avoid the challenges of Service Design projects?

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Q&A: Service Design in government

  • 6 Lessons

Learn how to use Service Design to improve public services for citizens.

Eco Social aspects

How can we make Service Design better take into consideration sustainability, social aspects and accessibility?

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Q&A: Accessibility and Service Design

  • 2 Lessons

Learn how you can make your service accessible to all humans.

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Q&A: Sustainability and Service Design

  • 6 Lessons

Learn how you can create services that improve not only the lives of people but also the lives of all organisms and the world.

Advanced Service Design

What are deeper questions about Service Design

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Q&A: Service Design Principles Library

  • 44 Lessons

“A Service Design Principle is an idea, a tip, an advice or a principle to improve the human experience.” Learn how to create your own library of Service Design Principles.

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Q&A: Philosophy and Mindset questions about Service Design

  • 29 Lessons

What are the deep questions about Service Design that are a bit philosophical?

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Q&A: Strategy and Service Design

  • 5 Lessons

How can Service Design help set strategies?

World wide Service Design

How is Service Design practiced in different regions of the world?

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Q&A Service Design in Switzerland

  • 18 Lessons

What makes Service Design an interesting place to practice Service Design?

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Q&A: World wide Service Design

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Discover how Service Design is viewed and practised all around the world.

Service Design and other fields

How does Service Design compare and play along with other fields of the design and innovation world?

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Q&A: Comparing Service Design to other fields

  • 10 Lessons

How does Service Design compare to other fields like UX, Customer Experience, Product Design, etc.? And how does Service Design benefit from them?

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Q&A: Storytelling and Service Design

  • 4 Lessons

How can you use Storytelling to become a better Service Design practitioner?

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Q&A: Strategic Foresight and Service Design

  • 2 Lessons

Learn how to use Strategic Foresight to improve your work as a Service Design practitioner.

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Q&A: Spatial Design and Service Design

  • 2 Lessons

Learn how to use Spatial Design to improve your work as a Service Design practitioner.

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Meet the creator

I'm Daniele an Innovation Coach and Service Designer from Switzerland.

I worked with clients from all over the world to help them find innovative solutions to their problem. I've been blessed to be able to learn a lot. 
Today I want to share  these learnings back with the community. That's why I've built the Swiss Innovation Academy.