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Upcoming Book: What the fuck is Service Design?

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Dozens of Service Designers, around the world, explain what Service Design really is and why it matters to you.

A community project

This project was started by Daniele Catalanotto who runs the Service Design Magazine website and tries to bring together members from the Service Design community ๐Ÿค

Answers from the Service Design community

There is not one perfect answer to the question "What the fuck is Service Design". So I asked dozens of Service Designers from around the world ๐ŸŒ to share their very personal definition.
Service Design is a bridge between organizations and their customers. It creates dialogue, enhancing customers participation to realize improvements and foresee opportunities.
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Jane Vita

The Service Design is product development for services. And certainly innovation of service business also.
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Juha Tuulaniemi

Service design is like a win-win situation. It is about helping organisations to make their service offering and processes pleasurable and easy to use
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Kirsikka Vaajakallio

A companies use case falls wholly apart. They looked for a way to make a new start: with Service Design they managed it fine and found the way to their customerโ€˜s heart.
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Ole Kleffmann

Service Design is the next logical step if you want to create a great User Experience for your services
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Dennis Hambeukers

Service design is all about enabling people to experience services in a more pleasant, meaningful and fluent way.
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Kristel Van Ael

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Service Design helps organizations better understand the needs of their customers, better understand themselves (...)
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Matthew Oliphant

Service Design is a systematic approach to develop and co-create together with clients and stakeholders.
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Klaus Weissmann

Service design is a complementary process in the early stages of building a service that "really" fits the real needs (...)
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Sรณnia Jerรณnimo

Service Design is a sequencing, interdisciplinary approach to problems that makes use of evidencing, collaboratory and co-creative methodologies (...)
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Felix Maximiliano Obes

Service Design is your invisible butler.
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Stephan Businger

A messy process with unknown outcomesโ€ฆ but who cares? it works!
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Teun den Dekker

โ€œService Design is your invisible butler ๐Ÿคตโ€

Stephan Businger
(...) it is a tool that helps companies to create products and services made customized for each consumer.
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Mauro Bastos

Service Design breaks down silos and barriers between business units.
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Jenine Lurie

Service Design is the glue that holds customer experiences together and makes them delightful.
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Juliane Trummer

Service Design is thinking about services in human terms.
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Leandro Mauricio Porras

Service design is the field that allows to use the design thinking for the construction of services and products system (...)
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Filipe Campelo Xavier da Costa

Service Design is a cultural revolution. It brings the liberal ideas into a world that has been subjugated by business interests, placing the Human at the Center of Design.
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Alexandru Raduca

Service design is a human-centered holistic approach used to innovate organizations to design and deliver better experiences (...)
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Lisa George Morris

Service Design, simply put, is a process & set of tools for problem solving.
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Judy Mellett

โ€œService Design is the glue ๐Ÿ”— that holds customer experiences together and makes them delightful.โ€

Juliane Trummer
[Service Design] makes life easier for the customer through a friendly digital service, designed to satisfy you first and then generate revenue for the company.
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Hilton Menezes

Service Design is the intentional practice of truly influence complex ecosystems to be improved, efficient, human-centered and valuable to all stakeholders.
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Israel Lessak

To be snarky, service design is literally the design of services.
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Ric Edinberg

Service Design is empathy. For me, it means choosing to take the time to put myself in the mind of the user and consider their journey from start to finish.
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Andrea Haydon

In it's purest form, it involves creating moments when people gain value from other people and systems through interaction
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Eric Chiu

For me Service design is a mindset. Mindset of a cross-functional team that thinks first from the human perspective (...)
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Silvia Baroni

More to come

More answers to question "What the fuck is Service Design" will be added as soon as new contributions from the community arrive ๐Ÿ˜‰ 
[An] union of analytical thinking, problem solving and creativity
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Elizabeth Meehan

Service Design is the application of Designโ€™s approaches and skills to the development of Service
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Daniel Caja Rubio

Service desing is an empathic and human way of developing services
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Eliisa Sarkkinen

Itโ€™s fucking thinking and doing, just like the books are titled, thatโ€™s what the fuck it is.
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Robert Grossman

Service design is infinitely extensible
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Cathy Huang