Service design

Service design is a design specialism that helps develop and deliver great services. Service design projects improve factors like ease of use, satisfaction, loyalty and efficiency right across areas such as environments, communications and products – and not forgetting the people who deliver the service. For a quick overview, download our Two minute guide to service design.

Engine's Service Design

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Our process

Engine's service design process breaks down into three broad phases: Identify, Build and Measure.…

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Typical projects

We help you to identify new opportunities for services and to bring them to life.…

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Five fundamentals

To simplify how we look at the ways services work, we keep referencing to the Five fundamentals…

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Working with Engine

All of Engine's projects are set up as creative and collaborative processes involving as many people…

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Public service design

How should Government set about improving and innovating the public services that we all use? …

Viewpoints

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Methods and processes of service design: a conversation

Lets talk about the service sector - what opportunities do you see?…

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Make yourself useful

Designers have a role to play in addressing business and social challenges …

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Confessions of a service design researcher

Design research is an implicit and inseparable aspect of service design. …

Methods

Service prototyping

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Service prototypes allow us to experience and test services before they're produced.…

Path To Participation

The path to participation is a diagram or sketch of a participation framework.…

Service Specification Document

A document that outlines in detail the various components and parts of a service…

Ethnographic user research

The purpose of user research is to gain a thorough understanding of users. …

Conjoint analysis

Conjoint analysis offers powerful insight into customer preferences…