Category: Design
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Takeaways from the Service Design Network Conference 2016
Eight years after the first Service Design Network conference debuted in Amsterdam, we returned to the city of canals, bikes, and bitterballen to host our ninth annual conference. Since that first conference, we’ve certainly come a long way. Attendance has grown from 220 that first year to 650 this year. And we had two full…
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Teaching and Talking Service Design at #Productized16 in Lisbon
While only in its second year, I was really impressed with the Productized conference in Lisbon. I was there to run a four-hour Service Design Crash Course workshop and give the closing keynote, titled So You Want to be a Service Designer. I have run 14 conferences, so I know what it takes to pull off…
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Themes from Service Design Network Conference New York
The seventh annual Service Design Network Conference took place in New York on October 2-3, 2015, hosted at Parsons The New School. As a principal of the network, and the head of the SDN event board, I played a role in organizing the conference, moderated the opening panel, and helped keep everything running smoothly. Each year, new themes,…
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Sincerely, Chief Operating Officer
I realize companies want to know how they’re doing and want feedback to improve their services. But I’m getting a little tired of the many post-interaction requests for feedback. I’m sure they’d “love” to hear from me. But after I analyze the content, language, appearance, and context of the message (As a service designer, I’m…
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Service Design Global Conference 2014 Snapshot
Last month I attended my seventh consecutive Service Design Network conference. This year’s conference was held in Stockholm, Sweden, and hosted more than 600 attendees. At the end of the conference, during the SDN management team’s closing remarks to the audience, I provided a quick summary of all the points made by the speakers, listed…