This Is Service Design Doing: Applying Service Design Thinking in the Real World
This Is Service Design Doing: Applying Service Design Thinking in the Real World book cover

This Is Service Design Doing: Applying Service Design Thinking in the Real World

1st Edition

Price
$15.25
Format
Paperback
Pages
541
Publisher
O'Reilly Media
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-1491927182
Dimensions
7.25 x 1 x 9 inches
Weight
2.09 pounds

Description

Ebook edition:xa0"One of the best Customer Experience ebooks of all time" - BookAuthority Marc Stickdorn is a trainer and consultant for service design thinking from Germany. With a background in strategic management and information systems, he supports organisations to build up knowledge in the field of service design and helps them to sustainably integrate service design into their structures. Marc guest lectures at various business and design schools and co-founded smaply, a software company developing web-based solutions to sustainably implement service design in organisations. Recently, he co-founded ExperienceFellow, a tool to gain genuine customer insights through mobile ethnography. Marc is editor and co-author of the seminal service design book This is Service Design Thinking.Markus Edgar Hormess is a service innovator and organisational consultant from Germany. For years, the qualified scientist has worked in telecommunication, engineering, banking and IT fields, helping companies to innovate complex services while creating business value. He is co-founder and partner of WorkPlayExperience, and award-winning co-initiator of the Global Service Jam - the world’s biggest ever service design and design thinking event (so far), as well as two spin-off jams, the Global Sustainability Jam and the Global GovJam. Together with Marc and Adam he is teaching service design at leading universities and business schools – like the MBA program at IE Business School, Madrid, or the School of Architecture and Design in Oslo (AHO).Adam Lawrence is a customer experience consultant, comedian and actor with a background in psychology and the global automotive industry. For years he has used expertise gained in the world of theater, film and storytelling to help organisations understand human needs, become more creative and innovate faster. Adam is co-founder of WorkPlayExperience, a service design company with a uniquely theatrical approach. He is the award-winning co-initiator of the Global Service Jam - the world’s biggest ever service design and design thinking event (so far), as well as two spin-off jams, the Global Sustainability Jam and the Global GovJam.Jakob Schneider is an award-winning communication and service designer from Germany. He is partner and creative director of the design agency KD1. Among others, he won a Red Dot Award and the prestigious “Best of Show” award at the European Design Awards 2011. He guest-lectures service design at design schools, regularly gives talks and workshops on service design. He co-founded both Smaply and ExperienceFellow and is the leading designer of both companies. Jakob is designer, co-editor and co-author of the seminal service design book This is Service Design Thinking

Features & Highlights

  • How can you establish a customer-centric culture in an organization? This is the first comprehensive book on how to actually
  • do
  • service design to improve the quality and the interaction between service providers and customers. You'll learn specific facilitation guidelines on how to run workshops, perform all of the main service design methods, implement concepts in reality, and embed service design successfully in an organization.
  • Great customer experience needs a common language across disciplines to break down silos within an organization. This book provides a consistent model for accomplishing this and offers hands-on descriptions of every single step, tool, and method used. You'll be able to focus on your customers and iteratively improve their experience.
  • Move from theory to practice and build sustainable business success.

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Most Helpful Reviews

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I wanted to love this book, but can't quite

A 500+ page book which essentially is a fancy version of Jeff Gothelf's Lean UX book which is less than 1/3 of the length and it's more precise and to the point. This 500+ page monster book is just repeating the same lean UX concept over and over again. I also found it's writing style is too hippy for a tech book. How about plain english, easy wording so I can appreciate it a lot more? This book feels like it's a hipster designer showing off of book design talent rather than teaching you a methodology.
11 people found this helpful
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Good content; Odd shape of book made for poor reading experience for me.

Great material however I find it ironic in how they designed the actual book. It was very difficult to read with such wide floppy pages. Would have preferred a normal shaoe/size book. If you like to read at tables you'll be fine. I like to read in the car or on my patio and the book was just an odd shape for my taste.

Subject matter is excellent.
5 people found this helpful
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The Urtext for Service Experience Design

As an experience designer, I feel like I've been waiting for this book all my life. It's delightfully laid out, easy to read, and packed with helpful examples and methods for doing excellent work in service- and experience design. I've never seen a book with such thoughtful and inclusive collaboration from so many practicing experts. Reading it is like drinking from a firehose of wisdom.
4 people found this helpful
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Great Book - Buy it somewhere else.

Love the book, TONS of great information. It would have been nice for Amazon to put it in a box instead of a flimsy envelope so the corner didn’t get crushed.
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Great read and reference

The content pulls many different topics together into one book. Although service design is the topic the processes and examples can be utilized throughout any type of design arena. I love it and reference it almost daily.
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Product Owner view

As a Product Owner for enterprise-level digital capabilities, I found this book to be extremely valuable. It provides some existing concepts in a refreshing way but, more important, introduces dimensions and new ideas for Product Owners and supporting teams to elevate their customer journey and customer satisfaction. I appreciate how comprehensive and thorough this book is. You can certainly jump around and focus on areas of interest, and get a deep dive into things like journey mapping. I've read it cover-to-cover, personally.
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Great book

Great book with a lot of good information!
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A great follow up to This is Service Design Thinking

The body of knowledge is for those willing to master the co-creative and collaborative techniques and methods presented in the previous book, but with deeper understanding.
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Tools for ux design

Must have resource for all designers!
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Five Stars

Very practical and usable.