Title
Towards a Taxonomy of Service Design Methods and Tools.
Abstract
Service Design multidisciplinary heritage provides a wide array of methods and tools to practitioners. This can be overwhelming for inexperienced service designers or may present a threat to the coherence of consultancy organizations creating services for third parties. We present a reflection on the use of tools and methods in Service Design and propose a taxonomy, both to provide guidance to newcomers and enforce team coherence. By surveying ten distinct sources, both from industry and academia, we collected more than 160 methods and tools. Each method's relevance for the community was inferred from its frequency on the survey and the most relevant were clustered according to six dimensions: why, who, what, how, when and where. The resulting clusters were visualized in four quadrants charts for each dimension. Based on this proposal, practitioners can then address each problem from several perspectives, using the most appropriate tool.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1007/978-3-642-36356-6_16
Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Service Design,Design Methods,Design Tools
Service design,Data science,Four quadrants,Multidisciplinary approach,Systems engineering,Computer science,Coherence (physics),Design methods
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
143
1865-1348
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.53
6
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rui Alves119632.99
Nuno Jardim Nunes242574.01