In recent years, Service Design has established an amazing body of knowledge, a large variety of relevant methods and many case studies that show the application and the impact of Service Design.

Design research is an implicit and inseparable aspect of Service Design. But as ever, designers like to do things their own way and this includes the way they do research.

»Anna has just arrived home. Her dogs lie flat-out on the floor, recovering from a few hours of running in the woods outside of Berlin, and Anna is getting ready to cook herself some dinner.

Recent work on services in management provides an important resource for developing knowledge about design for service.

This paper presents some of the experiences and lessons learned in the User Driven Open Innovation Booster research project (UDOI Booster) funded by the Finnish Agency for Technology and Innovation (Tekes).

Location-aware narratives are becoming more commonplace, both in the form of artistic installations and commercial systems.

You are a Service Designer. You are miraculously selected for the first manned space flight to Pluto, which is a 10 to 20 year round trip. What will the world be like when you return?

The workshop started out with actual failed projects that workshop participants have experienced. Through a series of co-creative tasks they went from failure stories and strategies for dealing with failures to archetypical failures.

Designers have a role to play in addressing business – and social challenges beyond the design of individual products and services.

Ways to evolve services in a changing technology environment

Data is the new oil and the money is in refining it to create valuable services that customers cannot live without. In this article, Ben Reason from live|work shows how creating service that meet the real needs of business customers can help you get the most from your data.

In August 2008, three different groups came together to undertake an experiment.Carnegie Mellon University’s (CMU) School of Design brought experience researching and teaching about Service Design, as well as a group of students looking to get their feet wet.

Western Finland Design Centre MUOVA and Hanken School of Business put Service Design to the test in a two-year research project, Desire, which studied how market-oriented Service Design renews innovation processes.

This workshop was a facilitated session on selling Service Design to and within organisations.

The academic activity relating to behaviour normally lies with psychologists, sociologists or pedagogues from various disciplines, each of whom represent different models of understanding behaviour and how to influence it.

Consumer-driven insights. On-point strategy. Impeccable execution. A rich brand experience. And millions of advertising dollars to drive customers to the business. This sounds like a winning combination, right?

As humans, the drive to connect with others is a powerful force. Of all the years spent on research to understanding tribal affiliation, inclusion, identity, and shared cohesion, it’s only recently that businesses have taken notice.

With predictions of a £20 billion funding gap in the NHS’s annual spending from 2011, it is argued that at no other time in its history has the NHS needed innovation for service delivery as much as it does now.

Hands on Service Design challenge using Design Thinking principles as a point of view.

How to build an intelligent business with the co-design of Service Design and Service Engineering

This article aims at bringing the approach of Service Design to the practices of tourism services in order to highlight the potential of the dialogue between these two fields of knowledge.

The relationship between performing arts and services is not a new topic in academic discussions. Grove and Fisk (1983) pointed out the theatrical nature of services in their services theatre framework.

Recent statistics show that 99% of all enterprises in the EU are Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs).

The workshop explored how different disciplines can collaborate to design successful solutions to social challenges.

An interview with Nuno Laginha, winner of the SDN Service Design Competition 2009.