Smart Black Taxi service: Flo by RCA student team Hyunyim Park, Jaehyun Park and Culainn Boland-Shanaha aims to tackle London’s air quality challenge with a service design approach and brings together the experience of Transport for London’s Experience Design Team, enabling people to be an active agent of change, to change habits and choose sustainable transport choices.

The Elderly Hospital of Curitiba, in Brazil - Hospital do Idoso Zilda Arns (HIZA) had a series of issues that were negatively affecting their patients satisfaction yet weren’t known by the hospital directors. This project identified and mapped all of the service’s weaknesses, and delivered co-created solutions for each of them.

Servizz Design is a set of service design tools aimed to create change in the Government of Malta, and which has the potential to create change in any organisation. These tools have been implemented in Servizz.gov, a one stop shop in Malta that citizens can use as a single point of contact for all public services.

Essense worked closely with the Consumer Marketing team at Schiphol Group (Amsterdam Schiphol Airport) to develop a customer experience vision for all touch-points of the entire passenger journey across digital and physical channels, from buying a ticket to boarding a plane.

The Service design community celebrates Christmas, New Year and... June 1st! We want to celebrate our second international Service Design Day with you. We invite everybody to gather and unite their voices under the hashtag #ServiceDesignDay on June 1st.

The Service Design Network takes pride in bringing the most relevant and interesting service design related content to our visitors and members on a daily basis. Still, we know that there is a lot we can do to improve our content experience, both for SD experts and those who are very new to the field we aim to champion.

SDN Saskatchewan chapter is seeking input into a service design mentoring program

The following is an open letter from Prof. Victor Magolin and Prof. Ezio Manzini urging all designers to take action and respond to the crisis that democracy is undergoing in this day in age. SDN supports this initative, and calls on all all service designers to spread the word for a cause inseparable from the core values of our field.

This project was a finalist for the Service Design Award 2016 in the category: Commercial, professional work.

“Business as Unusual” was the theme of the ninth annual Service Design Global Conference held in Amsterdam and it forms the feature theme for the new Touchpoint issue. In its play on words, it recognises that service design is more and more becoming an established way of ‘doing business’, whether in organisations, or in places such as the public sector.

DC hosted its’ 4th Annual Service Jam this year, in at the beautiful and open studios of Maga Design. This marked the first jam that was organized in partnership with our SDN Washington DC chapter.

The conference successfully enabled connections between service designers and researchers. The event created an opportunity for 300 attendees from the private sector, government, academia and NGO's to come together to shape the conversation of a design discipline still finding its voice in Canada. Conference videos and slides are being uploaded if you would like to take a look.

SDN DC hosted a happy hour together with other DC-based design organizations, DT:DC, HealthCare Experience Design DC and UNleaded - over 60 people gathered to mingle over food, wine and drinks.

A lunch and learn features the benefits of personas in service design.

Chapters of the Service Design Network in 20 countries, and the social media community, allowed us to involve almost 200 participants in the survey.

The Service Design Podcast is hosted by David Morgan and Stina Vanhoof from Knight Moves in collaboration with the Service Design Network. The podcast brings stories and inspiration about service design and related projects to your ears.