Is Service Design the next big thing?
Monday, December 1st, 2008The first Service Design conference was a big success, at least in terms of attendance. It was sold out as I found out when I tried to register. Bugger….Anyway, I guess it is clear that I am interested in Service Design. After reading some really evangelistic articles of Service Design pioneers I expanded my search using Google. One of the things I quickly found out that it is perhaps not as new as we all may think. Sure, online services are relatively new and bring new challenges and opportunities. But wasn’t even the oldest profession in the world a ’service’? Perhaps it wasn’t designed by service designers but I guess it proofed its worth. Even more interesting is that I found a serious body of knowledge on service design and management with many books written such as for example ‘ITIL Service Design’. So what is going on here? Are we User Experience people again thinking that we have discovered a new area that we can claim only to find out ten years later that some other discipline has already covered it extensively? (more…)
