An Introduction to Service Design

Author: Lara Penin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350031917
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 616

Book Description
A comprehensive introduction to designing services according to the needs of the customer or participants, this book addresses a new and emerging field of design and the disciplines that feed and result from it. Despite its intrinsic multidisciplinarity, service design is a new specialization of design in its own right. Responding to the challenges of and providing holisitic, creative and innovative solutions to increasingly complex contemporary societies, service design now represents an integrative and advanced culture of design. All over the world new design studios are defining their practice as service design while long established design and innovation consultancies are increasingly embracing service design as a key capacity within their offering. Divided into two parts to allow for specific reader requirements, Service Design starts by focusing on main service design concepts and critical aspects. Part II offers a methodological overview and practical tools for the service design learner, and highlights fundamental capacities the service design student must master. Combined with a number of interviews and case studies from leading service designers, this is a comprehensive, informative exploration of this exciting new area of design.

Service Design for Business

Author: Ben Reason
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118988922
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 214

Book Description
A practical approach to better customer experience through service design Service Design for Business helps you transform your customer's experience and keep them engaged through the art of intentional service design. Written by the experts at Livework, this practical guide offers a tangible, effective approach for better responding to customers' needs and demands, and provides concrete strategy that can be implemented immediately. You'll learn how taking a design approach to problem solving helps foster creativity, and how to apply it to the real issues that move businesses forward. Highly visual and organized for easy navigation, this quick read is a handbook for connecting market factors to the organizational challenge of customer experience by seeing your company through the customers' eyes. Livework pioneered the service design industry, and guides organizations including Sony, the British Government, Volkswagen Procter & Gamble, the BBC, and more toward a more carefully curated customer experience. In this book, the Livework experts show you how to put service design to work in your company to solve the ongoing challenge of winning with customers. Approach customer experience from a design perspective See your organization through the lens of the customer Make customer experience an organization-wide responsibility Analyze the market factors that dovetail with customer experience design The Internet and other digital technology has brought the world to your customers' fingertips. With unprecedented choice, consumers are demanding more than just a great product—the organizations coming out on top are designing and delivering experiences tailored to their customers' wants. Service Design for Business gives you the practical insight and service design perspective you need to shape the way your customers view your organization.

This Is Service Design Doing

Author: Marc Stickdorn
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN: 1491927135
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1156

Book Description
How can you establish a customer-centric culture in an organization? This is the first comprehensive book on how to actually do service design to improve the quality and the interaction between service providers and customers. You'll learn specific facilitation guidelines on how to run workshops, perform all of the main service design methods, implement concepts in reality, and embed service design successfully in an organization. Great customer experience needs a common language across disciplines to break down silos within an organization. This book provides a consistent model for accomplishing this and offers hands-on descriptions of every single step, tool, and method used. You'll be able to focus on your customers and iteratively improve their experience. Move from theory to practice and build sustainable business success.

Service Design

Author: Andy Polaine
Publisher: Rosenfeld Media
ISBN: 1933820616
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 218

Book Description
Service Design is an eminently practical guide to designing services that work for people. It offers powerful insights, methods, and case studies to help you design, implement, and measure multichannel service experiences with greater impact for customers, businesses, and society.

This is Service Design Thinking

Author: Marc Stickdorn
Publisher: Bis Publishers
ISBN: 9789063692797
Category : Creative ability in business
Languages : en
Pages : 376

Book Description
This book, assembled to describe and illustrate the emerging field of service design, was brought together using exactly the same co-creative and user-centred approaches you can read and learn about inside. The boundaries between products and services are blurring and it is time for a different way of thinking: this is service design thinking. A set of 23 international authors and even more online contributors from the global service design community invested their knowledge, experience and passion together to create this book. It introduces service design thinking in manner accessible to beginners and students, it broadens the knowledge and can act as a resource for experienced design professionals.

Introduction to Product/Service-System Design

Author: Tomohiko Sakao
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1848829094
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 287

Book Description
"Introduction to Product/Service-System Design" contains a collection of practical examples demonstrating how to design a PSS in industry. These recent examples are the results of applying various theories developed in different countries and therefore accommodating diverse cultural differences. Providing a useful overall guide to the state of the art in theory and practice, each chapter covers the cutting edge of a different methodology or practice. The book’s focus on design is also evident in the discussion of how to anticipate and utilize the various dynamics within each dimension. "Introduction to Product/Service-System Design" will help improve working processes and inspire creative thinking for the wide range of people involved in designing a PSS: designers, marketing professionals, sales staff, production engineers, and service engineers. It can also serve as a reference book for university students on advanced courses.

An Introduction to Industrial Service Design

Author: Satu Miettinen
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317181751
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 165

Book Description
Service design has established itself as a practice that enables industries to design and deliver their services with a human-centred approach. It creates a contextual and cultural understanding that offers opportunities for new service solutions, improving the user experience and customer satisfaction. With contributions from leading names in the field of service design from both academia and international, professional practice, An Introduction to Industrial Service Design is engaging yet practical and accessible. Case studies from leading companies such as ABB, Autodesk, Kone and Volkswagen enable readers to connect academic research with practical company applications, helping them to understand the basic processes and essential concepts. This book illustrates the role of the service designer in an industrial company, and highlights not only the value of customer experience, but also the value of employee experience in creating competitive services and value propositions. This human-centred approach brings about new innovations. This book will be of benefit to engineers, designers, businesses and communication experts working in industry, as well as to students who are interested in service development.

Good Services

Author: Louise Downe
Publisher: BIS Publishers
ISBN: 9789063695439
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Service design is a rapidly growing area of interest in design and business management. There are a lot of books on how to get started, but this is the first book that describes what a "good" service is and how to design one. This book lays out the essential principles for building services that work well for users. Demystifying what we mean by a "good" and "bad" service and describing the common elements within all services that mean they either work for users or don't. A practical book for practitioners and non-practitioners alike interested in better service delivery, this book is the definitive new guide to designing services that work for users.

A Tiny History of Service Design

Author: Daniele Catalanotto
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780464827283
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
A two hour read book that shows the different events that made it possible for Service Design to be such a great field today.

Designing Services with Innovative Methods

Author: Satu Miettinen
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 9789525018424
Category : Design
Languages : fi
Pages : 265

Book Description
"This book presents the emerging and increasingly important field of service design."--Publisher.