• Free

Remote workshop: Everyday Service Design Handbook creation

  • Webinar
  • Starts Jan 28, 2026 at 8:00 PM CET

Help us create a first shitty draft of a handbook that helps Service Design professionals use Service Design skills they use usually at work in their everyday life.

People

Who are the people behind this workshop?

This workshop is organized by three Service Design lovers who use Service Design skills in all aspects of their everyday life. From parenting, relationships and even mental health.

Daniele Catalanotto

Creator of the Swiss Innovation Academy. Created a video course about Everyday Service Design.

Leili Mirzakhalili

Freelance Service Designer, doodler and previous speaker at the Everyday Service Design Webinar held by the Swiss Service Design Network.

A photo of Maria Carla Sarrecchia

Maria Carla Sarrecchia

Senior Service Designer who runs a Newsletter about the intersection of parenting and Service Design.

Expectations settting

Who shouldn't join this workshop?

This workshop is not for everybody. If you:

  • don't practice Service Design

  • have issues writing in English

  • don't like fast paced workshops

  • want to keep total control on the ideas you share with the community

  • want to observe rather than participate

  • can't work in solo

  • are not used to remote tools like Zoom, Canva, Miro

  • want to be absolutely sure everything you share will make it in the final handbook

  • are not comfortable with others then adapting your early shitty drafts

Then don't join this workshop as you'll be frustrated.

The goal of this workshop is to generate many everyday life Service Design activities that Daniele, Leili and Maria can then take as an inspiration, adapt, select and hopefully publish in a handbook shared with the wider community.

Of course, for each element you have been a part of (by either generating an idea of an activity, or by developing an activity card, your name will be mentioned as a clear source of inspiration.

Schedule

The workshop format

This is a fast paced ideation workshop that will serve as a basis for a future handbook on how to use Service Design skills to solve everyday life problems.

20:00-20:10

Introduction

Discover the workshop goals and setup.

20:10-20:20

Ideation

Generate exercices based on a list of everyday life context and a list of Service Design skills. Participants mix them to create an exercice title.

20:20-20:30

Selection

Participants assign themselves to the exercises that they want to develop

20:30-20:50

Writing

Each participant develops at least one exercise based on the ideation process. The exercice can be totally new or based on personal experience.

Each exercice has an “activity card” with title, context, activity, duration, skill, description, etc.

20:50-21:00

Conclusion

Wrap up and thank you words.

A mockup of the book cover for the book Everyday Service Design handbook

The book idea

What's the end result after this workshop?

Our goal is to create a handbook that presents a selection of the best ideas to use Service Design skills in everyday life moments.

A mockup of a spread from the interior of the book showing how an activity card looks like

How could my contribution look like in the book?

We imagine that each activity card that we select out of the workshop could take a spread after some additional editing and improvements. Our goal is also to highlight who are the people that made the first shitty drafts and inspired this specific activity card.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

You've got questions. We've got answers.

Why are you making this?

We believe that Service Design can be of a huge help outside of the workplace. All the three of us, Daniele, Leili and Maria, have used Service Design in aspects of everyday life.

But we have noticed only a small portions of Service Design practitioners do the same.

We want to inspire more Service Design professionals to not only use the treasure of Service Design at work, but also at home, with friends, with family, and in all aspects of their life.

Will this be recorded?

No. This is not a webinar it's a workshop. The end results matter not the process.

This is not a webinar that you can register to and watch later.

Under what license is my contribution published?

All the work that will be generated during this workshop will be under a Creative Commons License that allows anybody, you included to:

  • Modify, adapt the work

  • Make commercial use of it

As long as people mention the authors.

Will my contribution be published?

That's not sure.

The raw results of the workshop will be shared publicly. But what makes it into the final handbook is a creative decision that will be made by Daniele, Leili and Maria.