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Service Design Tools

An open collection of communication tools and methods for designing services, started by Roberta Tassi and maintained as a shared library.

Visit websiteservicedesigntools.org

You can find here

  • tools organised by design phase
  • case studies
  • references to original sources

Good for questions like

  • Identifying the people and organisations involved in a service and drawing out how they relate to it and to each other. Explained in the Service Design Tools library.

  • The free online companion to the book: over fifty methods for research, ideation, prototyping and facilitation, each with a step-by-step description.

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

  • The practical companion to service design, covering research, ideation, prototyping and implementation with a large method library. Widely used as a course text.

  • Figma's collaborative whiteboard, often used by teams who already prototype in Figma for workshops and mapping.

  • The UK government's manual for designing and running public services: the Service Standard, guidance on discovery, alpha, beta and live, and on user research and service design.