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Our mission is to strengthen the awareness, adoption, and practice of service design as an approach to the next wave of GCC transformation by building a culturally-aware community of practice and body of knowledge.
SDN ATL is a passionate band of designers dedicated to advancing the theory and practice of service design. We are the epicenter for service design community within the Southeast and a partner to peer organizations throughout North America. We have three key constituents that we serve: practitioners, employers, and academics.
Das Service Design Network Austria ist das österreichische Chapter des Service Design Network International.
SDN Beijing, the chapter of the Service Design Network international, is a regional network of organizations and businesses in China. SDNBeijing aims to the promotion of academic and practical activities on service innovation, design strategy, service-oriented product design, service design methodology and service business innovation. Facilitate service design practitioners in China.
We want to build a community that brings together design practitioners, academics and students to advance the discipline and to create a better understanding and a greater awareness of the value of service design in the market.
SDN Boston kicks off in the Summer of 2018. Our initial goal is to bring together an active and diverse community of business leaders, public sector, academic, and design practitioners to discover, discuss, and disseminate the value, practice, and effectiveness of service design. Other verbs to describe our intent might be promote, socialize, connect, lead, and mentor. Along the way, we expect to have some fun and grow the ranks of the Service Design Network. Come join us!
SDN Brazil – Service Design Network: Fundada e organizada por profissionais, pessoas apaixonadas e entusiastas do Design de Serviço.
Promote service design and make organisations see the real value of service design, namely designing better services by putting the customers first. Grow a network of practitioners and enthusiasts.
Canadian chapter of the SDN will assist in forging relationships across disciplines and industries. An important part of this work is in nurturing and mentoring up-and-coming designers. We also hope to broaden the reach of the organization in order to bring non-designers into the service design conversation.
Share and grow Service Design through in-person and virtual events in Chicago, the midwest, and beyond. Grow a network of executives, leaders and practitioners focused on Service Design that can sustain the need for talent in our city. Promote community and connectedness through formal and informal gatherings such as panel discussions and workshops through the year. Identify and connect organizations and top tier research institutions to SD leadership where SD can make a difference.
El chapter inició sus actividades en Mayo del 2014 fundado por un grupo multidisciplinario de personas que han estado involucradas con la disciplina del Diseño de Servicios y la comunidad de Diseño en Chile. El objetivo es promover la disciplina del Diseño de Servicios y conectar a toda la comunidad en todo el país. The SDN Chile Chapter became official in May 2014, founded by a multidisciplinary core team with strong ties to the local design community. The intent is to take an inclusive, interdisciplinary approach to broaden the service design community through events and virtual discussions.
From the second half of the 20th century the service sector has shown growth in Colombia’s GDP. The services are showing multiplying effects that help improve the systematic economy. Though there’s a trend on service design, much more work is needed to do in order to create and design services taking into account the internal and external customer needs and desires. We aim to create a community that reinforces service design by aligning companies in the private and public sector, universities and service design agencies. With Service Design Network Colombia Chapter we have now an opportunity to innovate on tools, methods and approach to services according to Colombia’s condition, context and relevance.
SDN Dallas focuses on supporting local designers and organizations to create and improve customer experiences across various local industries. The topics regularly covered involve research, user-centric strategies, and collaboration to design seamless, efficient, and satisfying services. SDN Dallas teaches the use of innovative techniques to enhance user interactions, drive business growth, and address unique local market demands.
Service Design started gaining foothold in Denmark in both the private and public sectors around 2011 and the attention to the field is growing more for each day that passes. During the recent years professionals have taken charge and spread the word of Service Design to help to anchor it fully in Denmark. We connect the field in Denmark and create collaborations that supports promoting the value of service design and heightening the competencies in the field.
SDN Finland is committed to raising awareness of Service Design in Finland. We aim to foster the service design community representing different industries and disciplines by knowledge sharing and connecting the people.
Le chapitre français du SDN œuvre à la promotion du Service Design auprès des professionnels et à son intégration au sein des organisations via des formations, organisation d'événements, etc.
The SDN Germany Chapter aims to bring new insights to the German service design community. More importantly, those who are interested in service design can come together to raise public awareness of how service design has the capacity to impact academia, the public sector and private businesses.
El diseño de servicios está cruzando fronteras y conquistando nuevas áreas. México no es la excepción. Poco a poco, esta especialidad se va integrando en organizaciones de todos los tamaños.
With the introduction of SDN HK Chapter, it can bring new insights to the Hong Kong service community. More importantly, we can gather those who are interested in service design to raise public awareness of how service design can bring solid impact to business bottom line.
There has been a small Hungarian community formulating, organising events in order to foster the understanding of service design. SDN Hungary Chapter's aim to strengthen the professional and business character of this community to make it more sustainable and sustainably transformative. The Hungary Chapter is open to everyone who would like to support any kind of services for the local SD community, use these services for their own progression or just meet new faces with interests in service design.
"SDN India aims to build a community of creatives with diverse specializations in order to discover, discourse & deliberate over service design with a strong focus on learning, collaboration & research through the creation of a dedicated network of service designers and enthusiasts"
Service Design Network Indianapolis chapter aims to create a cohesive community of service design professionals and students that are collectively committed to advancing the practice.
The potential of Service Design in Dublin and in Ireland as a whole is huge. Indeed the conversation around Service Design has well and truly started, with more and more Service Design capabilities being built in different industries and educational institutions offering targeted courses of study, heralding a bright future for the discipline here.
SDN Japan Chapter was established in 2013. Service design practitioners, students, researchers, managers, and all others interested in the latest trends in service design are welcome to join!
The Mexican SDN chapter started as a platform for anyone who is interested in the most up to date knowledge about service design and experience design. We started in 2017 as Service Design Drinks Mexico motivated by the lack of awareness of the discipline in Mexico, however since our first event the community in Mexico City has been steadily growing and engaging in many local activities. Our goal is to share and grow Service Design through in-person and virtual events in Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterrey to have a stronger impact in our country.
Service Design in Minneapolis-St. Paul is very active among large corporations, smaller design agencies, and embedded within health care systems and the public sector.
Welcome to SDN Monterrey! We are happy to see you around, let us give you a small virtual tour to our chapter! The city of Monterrey is known in México for their focus on product and services development; here is where we jump in... our vision is to develop and impulse Service Design discipline and the people interested in it. Creating awareness of the impact and benefits Service Design could bring to the community and organizations.
The New York City Service Design Network chapter aims to strengthen and grow the Service Design community within the New York area.
The New Zealand Service Design Chapter provides a platform to bring practitioners, academics, students, and organizations together to develop, promote and strengthen the knowledge and practice of Service Design in New Zealand.
Service Design Network Norway aims to be a community to share and discuss ideas, experience and challenges within service design.
The Philadelphia Service Design Network chapter aims to strengthen and grow the Service Design community within the Philly area.
The vision of the SDN Poland evolved in the creative process of service design workshop, which gathered the chapter’s founding members. As a result of the workshop, we came with a motto for the first year of activity: “The New Reality”, which suggests user anticipation of progression of economic value (in use): from commodities, through goods to services and experiences.
Service Design has been a growth in awareness for both private and public sector in Portugal for the past decade. The current scenario has been influenced by niches of practitioners with international experience and academics. The growing adoption of these methodologies are addressing slowly but steady innovative outcomes and digital transformation within organizations.
As a national chapter, SDN Republic of Korea ( South Korea) aims to serves as a window of communication between the South Korean and global service design communities.
We hope to engage the local design community and growing interest in service design and to make San Francisco the United States' west coast hub for service design practitioners.
we intend to work with a cross-disciplinary team to co-create a service design ecosystem, with the goal of creating a value-chain that enable social innovations to create business value and social value. We intend to collaborate closely with SDN branches in Beijing, Taiwan, and other locations to help elevate awareness of Service Design in Eastern China while building a Shanghai team with both local and global vision.
The SDN SA chapter is a dynamic group of people that highly value education. With South Africa being a developing country, this is something that we as a society are trying hard to address. Likewise, as a Chapter, we are on a mission to educate our private and public sectors about the importance of designing better services for a society that desperately needs it.
SDN Taiwan is committed to serve service design community in Taiwan by connecting practitioners, sharing knowledge, and co-creating value. Currently, SDN Taiwan is promoting service design on talent development, organization implementation, and social impact. We also like to co-work with service design practitioners around Asia to develop Asia's service design practice.
SDN Turkey is committed to raise awareness of Service Design in Turkey. To do this, SDN Turkey aims to foster a community of people from different pillars of the discipline's reach. SDN Turkey focuses value creation in three important areas: Advocacy, Education, and Connection.
Service Design in our country is at an initial level at the moment. This means that only small part of the population has a real understanding of holistic design importance (not just a visual one). By engaging in the Chapter's activities, we plan to involve people in service design and maintain appropriate development service design approach. Our plan is to create and build an expert base of designers, who we would like to involve in our Chapter through events. Popularization among the businesses will be carried out by running real projects and achieve practical results.
We believe that Service Design fuels innovation inspired by people and helps create better customer and citizen experiences. We aim to become a growing community of Service Design professionals dedicated to furthering the practice of Service Design in the Washington DC metro area - providing opportunities for professional, sharing intellectual capital and thought leadership.
