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Service Lab London

London's long-running service design meetup, going since 2015, with roughly monthly talks for experienced practitioners, newcomers and the curious alike. Also a podcast and a YouTube channel of recorded talks.

Visit websitemeetup.com

You can find here

  • upcoming meetups
  • a large and active member list
  • links to the podcast and website

Good for questions like

  • Recordings of talks from the Service Lab London meetup on YouTube, going back several years. A good way to hear practitioners describe real work.

  • A free early-morning meetup in Brighton for people from Sussex and the South East, hosted by Clearleft every two months. Networking over breakfast, sometimes with a guest speaker.

  • Marc Fonteijn's long-running video series and podcast of conversations with service design practitioners, aimed squarely at people doing the work.

  • A clear account of what service design is and how it is done, from research through to measuring the results, by three practitioners from Livework.

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

  • Co-author of Service Design: From Insight to Implementation, host of the Power of Ten podcast, and a writer on design at many scales.