Service Design Methods and ToolsLaajuus (5 op)

Osaamistavoitteet

After completing the course, the student is able to:
- Put in practise established, research-based service design methods, especially in order to gain, analyse and utilise customer/user insights
- Use different tools to visualise different stages of the service design process
- Work proactively and creatively and start, manage, validate and analyse a service design project
- Design and offer alternative solutions to service design challenges

Sisältö

- Service design process:
- starting points, definition
- identification of customer's problems and needs
- strategic planning
- engagement, co-design
- design (idea generation, concept design, prototyping)
- service production
- piloting and launching
- evaluation
- Service design methods e.g: probes, observation, service safari, interviews, benchmarking, trend analysis, visualisation, prototyping, validation
- Service design tools e.g: mind map, story board, personas, customer journey map, scenarios, service concept, service blueprint, business model canvas
- Service design project - adapting theory to a real working life project with a commissioner

Esitietovaatimukset

Basics in service design thinking adopted