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This Is Service Design Methods
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This Is Service Design Methods

by Marc Stickdorn, Markus Edgar Hormess, Adam Lawrence, Jakob Schneider
July 2018
Beginner
233 pages
6h 3m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 1. Research Methods

Methods to move beyond assumptions

  1. Methods of data collection

  2. Desk research Preparatory research

  3. Secondary research

  4. Self-ethnographic approaches Autoethnography

  5. Online ethnography

  6. Participant approaches Participant observation

  7. Contextual interviews

  8. In-depth interviews

  9. Focus groups

  10. Extra Interview guidelines

  11. Non-participant approaches Non-participant observation

  12. Mobile ethnography

  13. Cultural probes

  14. Extra Co-creative workshops

  15. Co-creative workshops Co-creating personas

  16. Co-creating journey maps

  17. Co-creating system maps

  18. Methods of data visualization, synthesis, and analysis Building a research wall

  19. Creating personas

  20. Mapping journeys

  21. Mapping systems

  22. Developing key insights

  23. Generating jobs-to-be-done insights

  24. Writing user stories

  25. Compiling research reports

This section provides a wide selection of potential research methods to collect data and to visualize, synthesize, and analyze the collected data. This is just a brief overview; many more methods exist, and often the same method has several inconsistent names. We can only give a very brief introduction for each method, but if you want to dig deeper, there is plenty of literature (and for some methods, even whole books) with detailed descriptions and examples.

Methods of data collection

There are a huge variety of research methods you can use to collect meaningful data in service design. We sometimes use quantitative methods like surveys (offline and online), any form of automated statistics (e.g., conversion ...

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