Service design tools & resources

Free service design tools

These tried and tested tools will help you run workshops and activities to build understanding of service design within your organisation.

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Learning experience design canvas

No more content vomit. Do you want to design learning that actually sticks?

This worksheet will help you design more engaging training sessions, while also guiding you to think about training as a design challenge, not a delivery task.

It provides a simple framework for making learning more relational, relevant, and reflective, and is flexible enough to use to create workshops, programmes, or any learning activity.

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Mini design cycle workshop

This resource includes everything you need to run your own in-house workshop to help others experience the value of user-centred design, including worksheets and a facilitator guide.

Participants are challenged to design a better lunch experience for colleagues. They get to try out user research, defining user needs, idea generation, prototyping and iteration. This gives an overview of the full design cycle in just one fast-paced and enjoyable session.

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What is service design?

Curious about what service design is and how it can transform your work? We’ve put together this introductory guide to service design and how it can help create services people actually need and use, especially in the public and third sectors.

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Exploring service design careers

Have you been thinking about a career in service design but you’re not sure where to start? Here are some useful resources that might help.

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Inspiring service design case studies

Discover how other organisations are using service design approaches to transform how people experience their services? We’ve collated key resources from our blog.

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Explore other service design learning

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