Building a tight community of in-house service designers / Marc Fonteijn / Circle #07

Okay, we are pretty good storytellers... but are we telling the right story?As service design professionals, we nail it when it comes to what I call "Horizontal Storytelling". We can walk anyone throu...

27 Marras 20251h 8min

Service design, so what...That's a question still many people around us (rightfully) ask.And let's be honest, they'll probably keep asking it for the foreseeable future.It will take a very long time b...

20 Marras 20251h 9min

Have you ever thought about...What a therapist, a grandma, and an organ donor teach you about service design?I know, this might sound like the start of a strange joke, but it gets to the heart of a bi...

13 Marras 20251h 2min

We've got a serious problem...The "higher" you climb on the career ladder, the further removed you get from the actual discipline of design.Unfortunately, it's a story I hear surprisingly often. A des...

6 Marras 20251h 6min

Here's the big problem with journey maps...It's often like you've composed a masterpiece, but no one is there to actually play it.This is what I feel when I see a carefully crafted map (our version of...

30 Loka 20251h 3min

What is the thing biggest stopping you from doing meaningful work...When I listen to the service design professionals around me, it's often not the tools or methods they have access to.Rather, and you...

23 Loka 20251h 6min

I recently started playing Padel...And like with all my new hobbies, I enjoy getting good gear.So after some research, I treated myself to a racket from the higher end of the market.Now, when I'm on t...

9 Loka 20251h 10min

Do you ever wonder about the "so what?" of your journey maps...To this day, I often see that journey mapping is treated as a "documentation" exercise. Basically as a way to visualize our customers exp...

2 Loka 20251h 11min