Service Design
Working together in P&K
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Here you will find a range of learning resources including video, audio and written content to support your personal and professional development. You can use them to support your personal learning as well as within team or group learning spaces. To help you navigate your way through these resources, please use the following questions for your reflection, consideration and discussions. You can document this as part of your record of learning and use within your supervision and personal development discussions.
What is this making you think about? How do you feel after watching, listening reading this? Why do you think this has provoked these thoughts and feelings? What has this reaffirmed for you about he way you work? What does this mean in relation to how you work right now? Is there anything you want to change about the way you work right now? If you want to change something, what do you want to do now to influence that change? Is there anything else that is emerging for you from your learning right now? |
Service design is about designing services that work and enabling people who use the services to have positive experiences.
Please follow the link to this short video by the Design Council explaining how using Service design has enabled user centred transformation within services
http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/news-opinion/video-what-service-design
Service design involves people and relationships, creating insight into different perspectives and empathising with these perspectives to explore opportunities for making experiences better. The key to service design is participation and collaboration, co designing with people, see our ‘Story’ of co design below
We also like this short video about 'The story of Codesign' by Think Public
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Some questions to support your reflection
What are your thoughts about how you are currently implementing co design into what you do? What is your experience of co design? Is there anything you might want to develop about the way you work with people to make services better? What questions are emerging for you now? |
There are processes and tools that can be used to support us to develop how we work in this way.
The Double Diamond Design process is a commonly used framework and within the diagram below Lucy Kimbell’s ‘Social Design Methods Menu’ has been incorporated to illustrate ways to support this collaborative and user centred approach to service design.
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The Double Diamond Design Process
The design process is about working together.
There are four different phases within this framework:
Discovery
This phase is about creating a true understanding about what currently exists within a situation.
The following methods can be used
- Interviews
- Shadowing
- Observation – understanding about what people do, rather than what they think or say they do.
- Storytelling – Developing storyboards, customer journey maps, experience maps
- Surveys – Anonymous, fact finding
Findings from these research methods can be collated and shared to understand What is?
Define
This phase is about defining What matters?
What themes and patterns have emerged from the research? Is the initial question really the problem? And can the question be re framed to enable us to see things differently, think differently and work towards meaningful outcomes?
We can use tools such as empathy mapping http://www.solutionsiq.com/what-is-an-empathy-map/, which helps us to really think about our partners. We could also explore and define touch points of services with those who access them. Working together on this enable a group to establish understanding and empathy about what matters and why. Bringing people together like this will benefit the group and their collaborative working.
This time is for defining What matters?
Develop
This is the idea generation phase and exploring What if?
This is an opportunity for the participants to use knowledge and understanding collaboratively, to generate ideas for better and/or innovative ways of working. We can use creative methods such as telling stories, mapping, http://www.openchange.co.uk/affinity-mapping/, blueprints http://www.servicedesigntools.org/tools/35, and modelling, (see Story board) to enable participants to think differently, creatively and collaboratively. These tools will provide the space where participants can use a ‘Yes and…’ approach and add to and develop on each other’s ideas for improved services. Using creative tools can support participants explore further and begin to develop the ideas in more detail.
This time is for imagining what if or could be?
Deliver
This phase is about testing (prototyping), to find out what works?
Using learning from the previous three phases, participants can creatively prototype ideas. This will begin very roughly and quickly, from modelling and role play to pop ups and testing live with users. The idea of this is to make changes to refine the prototype with each iteration according to feedback received.
This is about refining the idea, to find out What works?
To learn and develop your skills in Service Design, see the Service Design Academy website Here
What is collaboration? Dr Shelley Sanchez