Plugs on trains: Meeting User needs
Hallelujah. It finally happened! The West Coast train line put plugs onto the backs of all seats! Today I’m headed back from Glasgow to London. A trip I…
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Service Frontiers: The Robots are coming
This is a repost from The School of Good Services Service Frontiers and should be noted, writing anything about technology, it is likely to be out of date within a…
Essential skills for service designers
By far the most common question I’ve been asked throughout my career is ‘what makes a good service designer?’ Whilst there’s no perfect ‘mould’ a service designer should…
The future is what you think it is
I’ve always said service design was a visual discipline. When the industry exploded, with the ‘design’ part in it, it was a whole visual and visceral adage to…
Life Updates
It’s been 9 months since I left my full time job as CEO of Snook. A few weeks after leaving Snook, I went to a conference and I…
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…
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…
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