Saturday, November 22, 2014

What is Service Design?


Everyday millions of people are using services provided by different businesses. Some of these services are intangible such as banking, education, transportation, and consulting and some services are related to direct ownership transfer of goods such as grocery stores, retail stores, and car dealers. In every business, despite of the kind of product and/or service provided, customer service plays a very important role. Customer satisfaction is very important factor in growth of a business and determines its future. Therefore, it is important to understand what are the elements, which provides pleasant experience for customers. This good experience will be the reason for them to remember the business, recommend it to others, and eventually make them revisit. Here is where Service design comes in.

Service design is a young field, which is basically the knowledge behind providing a great experience to customer while using any kind of service. Service Design is a mixture of science and design; psychology, statistics, graphic design and many more specialties are demanded to create an innovative and unique experience that makes sense for customers. In other word, analytics from science and creativity of design is both required to get to practicality. Service Design is not only beneficial for the customers but also has great impact on the profitability of the business.  A successful services design meets the needs of the customers and a good experience will make the customers to return to the same brand or place. Also, with providing solutions, service design will increase the profitability of the brand and redefine the brand reputation with providing usable efficient and also desirable experience.


Here is a short interview with Birgit Mager President for Service Design Network. She is explaining the basics of service design.

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