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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Service Design - Telling the truth

Our very own Gavin Maguire discusses Service Design as part of the 'Designer Breakfast' series.…

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Local Authorities: Tackling engagement challenges together

Camden Council has been granted Beacon Status for its positive engagement of older people…

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Service Design grows up

Positioning itself as a meta-discipline, …

Methods

Conjoint analysis

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Conjoint analysis offers powerful insight into customer preferences…

Service prototyping

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

Relationship mapping

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

Desktop walkthroughs

A simple exercise to help imagine a service experience…

Contextual Interview

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