service design

User story: the time travelling courier

"I'm really sorry, but it won't let you sign for another thirty seconds." The delivery driver on my doorstep looked…

7 years ago

A conversation with Rachel Liu

Rachel Liu traces her path as a service designer to an early interest in making and a degree in computer…

7 years ago

Design Talk 54. Rachel Liu, Lead Service Designer, Pearson; Lifelong learning

Rachel Liu traces her path as a service designer to an early interest in making and a degree in computer…

8 years ago

Self-serving machines and the human antidote

It was seven o'clock in the morning. We were four self-service screens and four user experience failures into our journey.…

8 years ago

Parakeets, problem analysis and the beauty of inconvenience

In his 2014 book Being Mortal, Atul Gawande tells the story of how Dr. Bill Thomas, a medical director at…

9 years ago

The multi-sensory experience design of a Harley

Part of MEX Inspirations, an ongoing series exploring tangents and their relationship to better experience design. When asked about Harley Davidson's…

9 years ago

Anticipate interaction at stages of approach

"My relationship with an object, a place, a person…any entity…varies according to distance. I may want one type of digital…

10 years ago

Principles for natively neighbourly multi-touchpoint experience design

If you listen to tech podcasts, you'll likely already be familiar with curse of the keyword.  When a presenter says 'Ok Google'…

10 years ago