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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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. …

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Designing for the social challenges of better health

Southwark is one of 33 boroughs in London. …

Methods

Graphic Facilitation

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

Storyboarding

Storyboarding is a narrative technique adopted from the film industry…

Personas

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

Contextual Interview

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

Empathy tools

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