Service design sprint
A Service Design Sprint is a time-constrained, service design project that uses design thinking and service design tools to create a new service or improve an existing one. The name Service Design Sprint was first mentioned in 2014 in the book The Service Startup: Design Thinking Gets Lean written by Tenny Pinheiro.[1][2](Elsevier 2014. The MVS [3] - Minimum Valuable Service - model to Service Design Sprint [4] described in the book combine Agile based approaches with design tools [5] to help product development teams understand, co-design and prototype complex service scenarios with low resources and within the timespan of a week. Since then, the Service Design Sprint approach has become popular with many different approaches surfacing and being used by startup incubators, institutions like the MIT and large service-driven corporations [6]
Structure
The Minimum Valuable Service model [7] is divided into four phases each containing a set of Design Sprint tools.
- Projection: Tools to uncover untapped barriers, needs, and desires, understand mental models, and get a sense of the user “learn, use and remember” journey.
- Perspectives: Tools to co-design with users, generating valuable service propositions.
- Playground: Tools to identify ideas that fit the next product cycle and explore them in further detail through storyboarding.
- Polish Off: Tools to design and prepare prototypes that can be tested with people.
Deliverables
The primary outcomes you can expect from a Service Design Sprint:
- New implementable service propositions.
- Finding and fixing bottlenecks and service flaws.
- Greater understanding of customers needs and wants.
- Tested Prototypes
- Confirmation or rejection of the hypothesis.
References
- ^ "The Service Startup: Design Thinking Gets Lean (Elsevier, 2014)". Retrieved 2014-04-10.
- ^ "Implementing Service Design Thinking for Startups". Retrieved 2014-04-10.
- ^ "Humanizing organizations - The pathway to growth" (PDF). Retrieved 2014-04-10.
- ^ "Service design sprints deliver speedy solutions". Retrieved 2014-04-10.
- ^ "I'm Confused: Lean Startup or Design Sprint?". Retrieved 2017-09-10.
- ^ "Service Design Sprints: Merging customer experience with agile". Retrieved 2017-09-10.
- ^ "An Introduction to Industrial Service Design". Retrieved 2017-09-10.
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