Headline Handing Down the SDN New York Chapter to a New Leadership Team

Handing Down the SDN New York Chapter to a New Leadership Team

A brief story of our creation, evolution, and finally succession all in the name of sustaining a meaningful space for the Service Design community in NYC

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Headline Trauma-Responsive Design Research: A New Model for Change

Trauma-Responsive Design Research: A New Model for Change

SDN New York Chapter kicked off 2022 with the first event titled Trauma-Responsive Design Research: A New Model for Change presented by Rachael Dietkus (she/her). She is a designer, licensed clinical social worker, and certified trauma professional dedicated to trauma-responsive practices in design. She is the founder and principal social worker of Social Workers Who Design and works with design teams worldwide.

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Headline Getting Started with the Application of Daily Ethical Design

Getting Started with the Application of Daily Ethical Design

On Tuesday, August 10th, the SDN New York Chapter was delighted to host service designer & researcher Nata Kostenko, design ethics enthusiast, former digital nomad, to talk about the exciting possibilities for a relatively new area in service design, Ethical Design.

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Headline Talk and Discussion: What Service Designers Should Know about Complexity

Talk and Discussion: What Service Designers Should Know about Complexity

In today’s talk for the Service Design Network New York Chapter, Agnes Kwek presented to us the challenges of implementing service design in government and gave us a framework of practices to overcome those challenges. If you missed the talk, you can still check out the contents of the discussion in the write up below.

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Business Impact of Design and Design Ethics

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