Methods

Our service design methods are an important part of the way we work. Methods help us in a variety of ways throughout the service design process and we select and tailor methods to match the projects we work on. We’ve published some of our favourites below.

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Path To Participation

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

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Culture hunt

The culture hunt is an immersion method in which a designer spends an intensive period of time in a …

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Participant journals

Participant journals are effective tools for capturing thoughts, feelings, and needs…

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Contextual Interview

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

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Distributed Scenario Brainstorm

Distributed Scenario Brainstorm is an idea generation tool …

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Graphic Facilitation

Graphic facilitation is a technique for visualizing a meeting or workshop…

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Co-creation

Co-creation is at the heart of what we do. We want to design with users to see…

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Filming

Filming can add colour and depth to research, or provide us with the insights and opinions…

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Conjoint analysis

Conjoint analysis offers powerful insight into customer preferences…

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Storyboarding

Storyboarding is a narrative technique adopted from the film industry…

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Service prototyping

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

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Empathy tools

Empathy tools let you experience processes as though you yourself have the needs of different users.…

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Shadowing

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

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Relationship mapping

Relationship mapping is a powerful tool that helps you understand services as systems.…

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Desktop walkthroughs

A simple exercise to help imagine a service experience…

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Typical projects

Engine provides a variety of consultancy offers to its clients. Typically we work on projects focused on service innovation, customer experience, customer insight, service co-design and innovation processes.

Projects

Case studies

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Capital Radio

Inspired concepts

How we helped Capital Radio create successful CD compilations.…

Viewpoints

Service Transparency

Transparency is crucial to the emotional connection between service users and providers…