These were generated by being specific about a service moment, in this case 'A customer paying at a kiosk in black and white fine line style'
It's less helpful when using as brainstorming tool for developing, e.g service concepts for whole user journeys, it's a mere representation of the end goal but sort of maybe makes you focus on the outcome of the service right?
Buying a home = pictures of people with homes
LOL
Not sure about these ones. Useful reflection of what patterns there are in banking apps
When technology mirrors real lyfe
I promised a blog of my early explorations. Here it is.
Early explorations into the use of AI generated images for service design
If you're interested in learning more about Service Design or a course on how to use AI image generation in Service Design (a fun short course) check out the school good.services and drop us a line on the contact form
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P.S this means I'm doing very small limited bits of consulting again whilst I wait on our filming schedule starting/funding finalising and in between training @theschoolofgood
Hit me up with specific briefs on DM if you have anything
* Small projects researching/testing new services
* Re-designing services that have some £
* Developing strategic direction for orgs on what to do
* Helping/mentoring exec/senior teams with their strategy on services
Or just advising on above
2023 good, got bits of time Nov/Dec
No sales jobs, no senior jobs, no messy complex stakeholder work at this point in time - I want to get back into designing again so if you're scoping a product/service/wanting to build a strategy I'm interested (have some ace friends too I can recommend if not for me)
Services are made up of thousands of tiny, often accidental design decisions.
These design decisions are often unconsciously made, in isolation from one another, and without an understanding of the impact they will have on our services
Service design is the pursuit of many, not the pursuit of one
However, the 'one' or few service designers must be given the remit, platform and authority to help connect, convene and challenge how an org works to improve the chance of meeting good outcomes through their services
So may organisations are hiring service designers.
Make sure you give them the space to do good work and you are ready to do this work, that you have a vision / strategy that they can help deliver and you will support that vision in your leadership.
Service design is rarely greenfield. Most service design is brownfield most of the time. We need to influence how the constituent components of a system – from its rules, policy, culture to infrastructure impacts the UX + how it helps, or stops meeting needs and +ve outcomes.
Services are made up of 1000s of design decisions taken by constituent parts of an organisation or system. These design decisions are often unconsciously made, without an understanding of the impact on end users - staff, customers and the general public.
When working in a brownfield environment, the role of a Service Designer should focus on facilitating + communicating how the constituent components of an orgs model, role, rules, policy, culture or infrastructure impacts the UX and meeting the right outcomes for people.
Weren't allowed to ask clarification questions post stage 1 before pitch.
We said - if we have timelines wrong, we can re-work these to meet outcomes
If we have outcomes wrong, we can re-work approach to meet them
That and in one criteria being marked down as excellent for agile approach then being penalised in relation to a Q on if we can supply project management but 'could have scored higher if we'd talked about agile'
I'm so done with showing a range of experience (which is now vast) on different level of fidelity outcomes and not being respected for this experience but penalised on getting the vision wrong of what's in the buyers head without a freaking conversation.
Taking 6 weeks out to write up case studies for Snook's 10 year back catalogue.
It's a privilege to have a vantage point across so many industries, sectors, systems, communities.
These are my open short hand notes of patterns I'm seeing
Everyone wants a system that will share data across sectors (housing, social care, health, education, criminal justice system) but is impossible due to data restrictions+poor technology
This comes up as an idea/need in nearly every piece of work I've ever done, still unsolved.
If only people had access to their healthcare data and health care providers had access to good digital services and technology, we would be able to enable many of the conceptual preventative measures that reduce pressure on the system (e.g unscheduled care)