Service · UX and service design

Service Design & UX

UX and service design map both the screen and the whole process around it before any code is written. Moving a button in a prototype costs far less than moving it in a live system.

This page explains one of our disciplines. If you are looking for a solution to a specific problem, it is quicker to start from the challenge. See the challenges

What it is

Solutions people can work out without a manual

UX is about how a single screen behaves. Service design is about the whole process around it: what the customer does before and after, who takes over in the office, and where things usually stall. The two belong together, and we work on them as one.

In practice that means talking to the people who will use the solution, mapping the customer's route from end to end, and building clickable prototypes you can try before any code is written. Moving a button in a prototype costs far less than moving it in a system that is already live.

When we use it

When it pays to draw the solution before building it

Design is not a layer added at the end. It decides what gets built in the first place.

  • Several departments disagree about how the solution should work
  • Users have to have it explained before they can use it
  • It will be used by people with no time to learn a new tool
  • The process runs across screen, phone and physical work
  • You need to show the idea to someone before you can get budget for it

What it solves

Problems that look technical but are design problems

  1. The system is not used as intended

    We look at how the work actually gets done and lay out the flow to match it, instead of asking people to change their habits.

  2. Customers ring instead of clicking

    We find where in the process they drop out, and rebuild it so the errand can be finished without help.

  3. Our people in the field do not use it

    We cut the interface down for use under pressure: few choices, large tap targets and no screens that need calm and a good signal.

  4. The product is hard to explain

    We turn what a buyer cannot see from the outside into something they can try against their own situation.

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We also help turn new ideas into something real — from the first set of numbers to something that runs.

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