Based on a multiple case study on Service Design (SD) projects, we discuss different levels of SD's transformative impacts, associated with three types of designer-client relationships. In the 'delivering' relationship, SD informs service planning and development practices based on user-centred insights, while affecting physical service resources/technologies. In the 'partnering' relationship, SD aligns actors with the target users' experience while extending the SD impact, beyond physical resources/technologies, to human actors. Finally, in the 'facilitating' relationship, SD helps client organisations build their own capabilities for sustainable user-centred innovation, while achieving a wider impact on physical resources/technologies, human actors, processes, and routines. The contextual factors and implications of the designer-client relationships for SD practices are also discussed, based on expert interviews.

Exploring the transformative impacts of service design: The role of designer-client relationships in the service development process

Sangiorgi, Daniela
2018-01-01

Abstract

Based on a multiple case study on Service Design (SD) projects, we discuss different levels of SD's transformative impacts, associated with three types of designer-client relationships. In the 'delivering' relationship, SD informs service planning and development practices based on user-centred insights, while affecting physical service resources/technologies. In the 'partnering' relationship, SD aligns actors with the target users' experience while extending the SD impact, beyond physical resources/technologies, to human actors. Finally, in the 'facilitating' relationship, SD helps client organisations build their own capabilities for sustainable user-centred innovation, while achieving a wider impact on physical resources/technologies, human actors, processes, and routines. The contextual factors and implications of the designer-client relationships for SD practices are also discussed, based on expert interviews.
2018
Case study research; Designer-client relationships; New service development; Service design; Architecture2300 Environmental Science (all); Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous); Engineering (all); Social Sciences (all); Computer Science Applications1707 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition; Artificial Intelligence
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