What is Service Design?
First, we need to start with what services are. Services help us do a thing, provide us, a person, with some kind of value, helping us reach an…
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Making it safer online
After a year when many people’s lives were lived online more than ever before, and with that trend only set to continue, the issue of online safety has…
Opening up form follows function
I’m publishing these excerpts of talks I’ve given so they’re accessible to people I share design introductions with. They cover some basic principles, key moments in the history of design…
Good service designers should read Good Services.
Finally, a critical book in Service Design that comes back to the materiality of services. For too long we fetishised methods and focused on the how not the what…
A thank you to the Glasgow School of Art
Ten years ago to the day I graduated from my degree in Product Design at Glasgow School of Art. I’ve always been a huge supporter of the school…
Service design: creating a relational state
Service design has had a meteoric rise over the past decade. The discipline has helped us to make services more accessible, usable and inclusive. It has, in turn,…
A guide to procuring service design
I’ve been responding to requests for bids from clients in the form of ITTs, RFQs, Briefs, Proposal requests — for over 10 years, across the public, private and…
Design Led Governance
I’ve long been a fan of Impact Hub Brum since their Kickstarter over 2 years ago. They want to empower a collective movement to bring about change in Birmingham, embracing a…
Patterns Day
I’ve just finished up at Patterns Day run by the brilliant Clear Left in Brighton. If I’m honest, I didn’t really know what to expect given this was advertised to web developers. I…
The what not the how of Service Design
We’ve become obsessed with the how and not the what. When it comes to Service Design as a discipline (with a capital S and D) it seems, on…
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