{"id":27977,"date":"2020-10-12T11:14:04","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T09:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intellias.com\/?p=27977"},"modified":"2024-07-22T16:55:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T14:55:55","slug":"service-design-principles","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/intellias.com\/service-design-principles\/","title":{"rendered":"Building a Better Product: Core Principles of Service Design"},"content":{"rendered":"

The concept of service design is nothing new. It originated back in 1991 when Michael Erlhoff and Brigit Mager established Service Design as a field of education and research at K\u00f6ln International School of Design (KISD).<\/p>\n

In today\u2019s highly competitive landscape, businesses are increasingly embracing service design to improve their offerings, differentiate from the crowd, and even create new services to address previously unmet customer needs.
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When you have two coffee shops right next to each other, and each sells the exact same coffee at the exact same price, service design is what makes you walk into one and not the other.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t 31Volts Service Design Studiofdsx<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/small>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\t\t<\/section><\/p>\n

Service design goes beyond individual touchpoints and interactions between end users and a solution, as service designers are also focused on how these touchpoints are connected, how customers move around a service, and what needs service providers have.<\/p>\n

Service design principles<\/h2>\n

In their book This Is Service Design Thinking, Marc Stickdorn and Jakob Schneider identified five core principles that form the foundation of service design.<\/p>\n