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The Scottish Approach to Service Design

The Scottish Government's framework and community for designing public services with the people who use them, with a shared method bank.

You can find here

  • the approach and its principles
  • a method bank
  • a community of practice

Good for questions like

  • An annual conference in Edinburgh for people designing public services, with workshops and talks drawn from across the UK and international public sectors.

  • The community for service, interaction and content designers working in and around the UK government, coordinated through the GOV.UK Service Manual.

  • The UK's national strategic body for design, home of the Double Diamond and the Systemic Design Framework.

  • The UK government's blog about design, written by the people doing it across departments. Honest accounts of what worked and what did not.

  • A volunteer-run weekend where people in cities around the world prototype new services around a shared theme. No experience needed.

  • Fifteen principles of good service design, drawn from Lou Downe's time leading design across the UK government. Short, plain and opinionated.