Tag: Service Design
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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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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…
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US Airways Contact Us Overkill
In the context of the service design and service experience work I do, I’ve been much more focused on the way the services I interact with communicate with me. In this case, I wanted to communicate with US Airways and was presented with the following form, which asks for my Dividend Miles number, name (“Must…
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First World Voting Experience
I voted in a garage, using a poorly designed ballot, made decisions on issues with implications I couldn’t possibly understand, and left as joyful as one feels after a root canal. We must change this experience.
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Potential Service Design Talk Titles
Next week I’ll be speaking at the Service Design Network conference in Paris. When I first started thinking of what to talk about on the subject of changing culture by design, I came up with the following list of titles. It’s a pretty good list of where my head is at the moment. More Than…