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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Local Authorities: Tackling engagement challenges together

Camden Council has been granted Beacon Status for its positive engagement of older people…

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Service Design grows up

Positioning itself as a meta-discipline, …

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Service Design and User Experience: Same or Different?

Oliver King, Co-founder and Director of Engine, talks on "Service Design and User Experience: Same o…

Methods

Service Blueprint

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A Service Blueprint can help you to simply specify a service. …

Contextual Interview

A contextual interview is spending time with a person in their territory often in their home…

Personas

Personas are visual and anecdotal profiles. They may be based on ‘real people’ from research or …

Ethnographic user research

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

Shadowing

Shadowing is a technique that allows you to immerse yourself in the lives of customers.…