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This Is Service Design Doing
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This Is Service Design Doing

by Marc Stickdorn, Markus Edgar Hormess, Adam Lawrence, Jakob Schneider
January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
567 pages
18h 2m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 4. The Core Activities of Service Design

A flexible framework to tailor your service design process to your people, goals, and organization.

Expert comments by: Christoph Zürn | Francesca Terzi | Jamin Hegeman | Simon Clatworthy

  1. 4.1 In search of a process for designing a service

  2. 4.2 Core patterns in the design process

    1. 4.2.1 Divergent and convergent thinking and doing

    2. 4.2.2 Make sure to solve the right problem before solving the problem right

    3. 4.2.3 All design processes are alike... and different

  3. 4.3 Introducing the core activities of the TiSDD service design framework

  1. This chapter also includes

    1. Iterative and adaptive design in a VUCA world

    2. Patience, young Padawan, your time will come

    3. Adapt and iterate forward, or how to not go in circles

    4. Four core activities of the service design process

In Search of a Process for Designing a Service

In this chapter and the ones that follow, we sketch out a framework that will help you understand the underlying activities and the overall process of designing a service. It will also help you to get a sense of its limitations. We’ll consider questions like:

  • → How much can you plan for, and how can you professionally manage expectations and uncertainty in the remaining parts?

  • → How can you stay on time and on budget while the process still needs to be iterative and explorative?

  • → How much structure is necessary? When will too much structure have a negative effect on the quality of the results?

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