As we shifted from a product-based economy into a service-based economy, customers are more and more pampered with good services. To be successful, companies more than ever need to offer services that exceed the expectations of people. So in order to offer the best services, companies can do two things. On the one hand they can work closely together with external professionals. On the other hand, they can expand their in-house expertise by training their own employees to think more human centred...
Dec 20, 2018•27 min•Ep 29•Transcript available on Metacast We went to the Service Design Global Conference in Dublin where we attended lots of inspiring talks and hands-on workshops. Again, it was a truly amazing edition! It’s surprising how this conference manages to touch new topics & give new inspiration every year. Hats off to the organisation! We also really enjoyed the social aspects of this conference. Since this wasn’t our first SDGC, we saw a lot of familiar faces and like every year we had the chance to get to know many new people. During thes...
Nov 29, 2018•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast Marc Stickdorn is a well-known person in the Service Design world. That’s understandable for many reasons! He is one of the writers on the ‘Service Design Thinking’ and the ‘Service Design doing’ book. Since this week also the ‘Service Design Methods’ book. Besides that he is co-founder and CEO of ‘More than Metrics’, a company that offers tools and stuff for customer experience and service designers: Smaply, Experiencefellow and Mr. Thinker. Marc speaks about Service Design at many conferences ...
Aug 20, 2018•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast New technologies, a continuously changing lifestyle and new jobs and disciplines present serious challenges in the field of education. Old education methods and skills are challenged in a society where personalisation, collaboration, information and e-learning are taking over. Professionals have to re-educate themselves and schools need new tools and solutions to be able to innovate and make these changes manageable. How can Service Design help education deal with these challenges and inspire pe...
Jul 03, 2018•2 hr 35 min•Transcript available on Metacast We can’t believe its already our 25th episode! In september 2016 we published the first episode. Not sure where this adventure would lead us we decided to just give it a try! Since then we have been speaking with inspiring people from al over the world. In this 25th episode we reflect on the conversations we had, we’ll let you know which episodes were our favourite ones and what we have learned from experts in the field. One of the highlights of hosting this podcast is meeting our guests and lis...
May 14, 2018•23 min•Ep 25•Transcript available on Metacast Together with the city of Rotterdam, service design agency Muzus won the award for organisational impact in the public sector. The city of Rotterdam is offering a mobility service to people with special needs to make sure they get to the where they want. They realised, however, they did not know the people they were offering the service to. Muzus conducted qualitative research in various ways to give the city of Rotterdam insights in these users. These insights were used in various ways to offer...
Apr 19, 2018•36 min•Ep 24•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode we speak to Hyunyim Park who won together with her team the student award for business innovation in the private sector. Together with Jaehyun Park and Culainn Boland Shanaha they designed the Smart Black Taxi Service Flo to tackle London’s air quality. Their service offers real-time time data about slow traffic, road works, busy spots where people look for taxi’s, etc. By offering this data the taxi drivers will be able to make better choices and reduce their driving time withou...
Apr 06, 2018•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode we speak to the Service Design award winners for the best commercial project. Judy Mellett is director Service Design, Innovation and Strategy at Telus and Chris Ferguson is founder and CEO of Service Design agency Bridgeable. Together they won the award for redefining the TELUS Renewals experience.
Mar 22, 2018•1 hr 2 min•Ep 22•Transcript available on Metacast Ella Walding won the Service Design student award for her graduation project at the Royal Collage of Art in Londen. Together with the government of Malta she developed a set of Service Design tools aimed to create change in the organisation. These tools can be found at servizz.gov.mt After her studies Ella started working as a service designer at innovation unit.
Feb 04, 2018•43 min•Ep 21•Transcript available on Metacast This year Service Design award for systemic change in education went to ‘Design Managers Australia (DMA)’ and Macquarie Primary School. We had the great opportunity to have both Mel Edwards, co-principal at DMA and Wendy Cave, principal at the Macquarie Primary school together on the show.
Feb 04, 2018•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Chris is a Service Design Strategist, founder and CEO of the Canadian Design Agency Bridgeable. At Bridgeable they work with some of the largest organisations in sectors like healthcare, telecom and government. Together with their clients they deliver great customer experiences though designing organisational en service-system level changes inside these companies.
Jan 31, 2018•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast BC is a game changing technology that brings some unique benefits. For us there are some properties that make Blockchain highly interesting for Service Design. Distributed Blockchain is a distributed technology, a blockchain run on multiple nodes that can should on different physical locations. When one node is compromised, nothing in the blockchain is lost. Immutable The assets in a blockchain can not be duplicated or changed without recording the action to do that change. With a blockchain it’...
Jan 19, 2018•43 min•Ep 18•Transcript available on Metacast We were happy to join the Global Service Design conference again this year. During the conference we talked to speakers from all over the world, volunteers, organisers and many more. You can find a compilation of all these interviews and our own recap here.
Jan 03, 2018•1 hr 3 min•Transcript available on Metacast Tanarra Schneider is group director at Fjord Chicago where she leads a large team of talented people. She loves keeping teams motivated to design new services and businesses. She is passionate about design as well as food, dancing and being a mom.
Nov 07, 2017•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast This year in Madrid will mark the tenth edition of the Service Design Global Conference. We talk to Birgit Mager, Alex Nisbett, and Jamin Hegeman about 10 years of Service Design conferences. They take us back to the start, share their personal highlights and get us excited for the upcoming conference. Have a listen in anticipation of the next edition and come and find us to say hello in Madrid. INTERESTING LINKS Service Design Podcast is brought to you by & from and the
Oct 03, 2017•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast Per Kristiansen one of the people who helped make Lego Serious Play into what it is today. As partner at Trivium he goes around the world training people to be Lego Serious Play facilitators. Together with Robert Rasmussen he is the author of the book “Building a Better Business with the Lego Serious Play method. We talk to Per all about the early days of Lego Serious Play and what makes it such a great tool.
Sep 22, 2017•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast Frederik Vincx is a Belgian social service designer. He graduated ten years ago and worked for six years in communication agencies as a designer. In the following four years he founded his own company Prezly, where he put his heart and soul in. After these ten years of hard work he wanted to shift his energy towards more meaningful challenges. Even though he really loved his job he felt that he should do something else that matters even more. So he took the brave decision to go on a one year Soc...
Aug 24, 2017•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast Esben Groendal is a Danish Service Designer working in Japan. He is a former Service Design master student at and the initiator of the .
Jul 17, 2017•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast Virtual and augmented reality promise to change the way we perceive our surroundings, interact with each other, create, teach and play. As the technology evolves at stellar speeds, each day more and more opportunities open up for businesses, brands and organisations to connect with their customers. But it also leads to new questions. Will this new way of seeing blur the line between real life and virtual reality? And how will we design the best user experiences for it? In our second live episode...
Jun 28, 2017•33 min•Ep 11•Transcript available on Metacast We recorded a special bonus episode for Service Design Day at the first of June! This episode is a compilation of interviews with Service Design pioneers from all over the world. Together we talked about the status of Service Design in their continent and the cultural difference they experience.
Jun 01, 2017•1 hr 25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Mark Willems is pedagogical employee in innovation and ICT integration at the Gemeenschapsonderwijs, in short GO!. A Belgian governmental institution that organises education in Flanders. We personally know Mark and GO! because one year ago they came to us, at knight Moves, with the question ‘How can we provide the right tools for education in a rapid changing world?” Together we went on a journey of tackling this challenge. In collaboration with all stakeholders we developed a tool that changes...
May 19, 2017•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast Sanne Kistemaker is co-founder of the service design company Muzus, and teacher at Industrial Design Engineering at the Delft University of Technology. Sanne founded Muzus, a user-centered design agency 10 years ago, together with her sister Neele. Over the years they evolved into a 10 person service design agency that creates products and services by providing insight in the world and motivations of people. One of the approaches they use is contextmapping. Contextmapping is a method that has be...
May 03, 2017•56 min•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast This is our first Arena episode! Arena is an event organised bij Knight Moves packed with inspiration, learnings and hands-on action on some of the most relevant design topics of today and tomorrow. Three times per year, we bring hot topics into the ARENA and invite two speakers to throw their expertise in the field from different perspectives. Besides that, different partners bring spectacular projects to the Marketplace, a place where guests get the chance to see, explore and experience the se...
Apr 11, 2017•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast Frederik Kraft is Senior Expert Change & Transformation at Deutsche Telekom, one the world’s leading integrated telecommunications companies. Their core business is the operation and sale of networks and connections. To continue their succes Deutsche Telekom evolved from a traditional telephone company into an entirely new kind of service company.
Mar 22, 2017•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Sophie Andersson is strategic designer at Transformator Design, a Stockholm based Service Design agency. At Transformator they design services based on customer needs and help organisations towards customer centricity. One of those organisations was the Swedish employment agency, together they won the service design award for systemic and cultural change in the public sector. We were very pleased that we could involve Caroline Enevold, customer-driver business development manager at the employme...
Mar 02, 2017•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast Gayle has recently completed a PhD at The Glasgow School of Art in which she responded as a researcher and a designer to difficulties young people who were leaving care and their workers experience when working together. For this work she was acknowledged with the first ever ‘service design award’ for best student project. Gayle is a graphic designer by background, she got into Service design because of her interest in the impact she was creating with her graphic design work. She realised she ha...
Jan 25, 2017•45 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast Kaarel Mikkin is de co-founder of service design & branding consultancy Brand Manual. An international agency establish in Tallinn and Stockholm that designs customer experiences. Brand Manual used to be a marketing company that saw the need to expand towards a service design agency. “Service design is the new marketing” Band manual won the service design award for best commercial project with their project That reinvented the bookstore for Apollo. They redesigned a bookstore into an inspiring e...
Jan 25, 2017•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast Erika Flowers is Principal Service Experience Designer at Intuit, and Morgan Miller is Senior Service Designer for Stanford University’s central IT organisation. Together they are the founders of Practical Service Design. In this episode they explained the importance of the word “practical” in the service design community, and the need for a channel to get people who are new to service design on board. We also talked about the use of data and making something meaningful out of it, and they expla...
Dec 01, 2016•49 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast With our mobile podcast studio we walked around the Global Service Design Conference and bumped into some very inspirational people! We talked to speakers, volunteers, visitors, chapter builders and many more, all coming from different parts of the world from Japan to Sweden. But one thing they all had in common; they were all passionate about service design! Relive the conference here! INSPIRATIONAL PEOPLE YOU CAN LISTEN TO IN THIS PODCAST: Sarah Schulman Partner at Inwithforward - Speaker and ...
Nov 10, 2016•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast Simone Carrier in head of service design at FutureGov, that focusses on service design project for governments. Together we talked about what service design means to governments, what the differences are between government over the whole world and how service design will evolve in the future. Simone also gave some great insight tips on who they successfully run these project at FutureGov. Discover more insights about this conversation Our experiences are so shaped by services like Deliveroo, Ube...
Sep 21, 2016•52 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast 
