Category Archives: Service Designing

Last night we held our second Service Design Thinks and Drinks in Sydney at Trinity Bar Surry Hills. I presented a Service Design case study undertaken by Proto Partners for Contours Fitness Studio, a women only gym that has over 200 studios across Australia.

Ellie Nichol from BT Financial Group who attended the SDN Conference in Madeira last year provided some great insight into some of the hot topics from the conference and demonstrated how BT have already successfully employed these methods in their work here in Australia.

Following the presentations we had a great discussion about Service Designs’ role in Business in Australia and some ideas on communicating its increasing relevance to the Australian Service sector.

It’s always important to drink your own Coolade so following the presentation of the Contours Case Study where we showcased the insights derived from using NPS for Contours,  we are over the next few days going to unxertake some user research and undertake Net Promoter Score  on the Australian Servicedesigning Drinks/2 to garner feedback and suggestions to make this a better Service experience.

An idea we have had, sparked by Ellie’s presentation where she discussed “Customers engaging with Customers” is a suggestion that at the next SD/3 we co-create the Sydney Service Design Drinks customer journey and touchpoint experience. It might be a fun way to get everyone involved in a real Service Design project and improve our own event. Love your feedback on this idea at Servicedesigning.com.au

Sydney Service Design Drinks /3 will be held at 505 Crown Street, Trinity Bar at 6.30pm on March 16th, so pop it into your diary and bring along a friend.

Service Design Drinks 2 is coming up quick!

6.30pm, Tuesday 19 January 2010

Trinity Bar, Surry Hills (Google map for Trinity Bar).

We’ve got two awesome presentations lined up. A great service design case study of Contours ladies gyms from Damian Kernahan (Proto Partners) and some wise words of experience from Ellie Nichol (BT Financial Group). Followed by a quick round-up of what’s been happening in service design around the world from Suze Ingram (Service Design Hub).

This is only our second meeting. The first was a hit – so don’t miss this one.

Let us know if you are coming by sending a quick “I’ll be there” email to servicedesigningau@gmail.com.

Sydney Service Design Drinks is on 17 November at Trinity Bar, Surry Hills

The first Service Design Drinks for Sydney is set and ready to go.

The details are:

6.30pm, Tuesday 17 November

at the Trinity Bar in Surry Hills

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There’ll be a quick Service Design Drinks introduction from me, Damian Kernahan (Proto Partners) and an equally quick talk from Suze Ingram (Service Design Hub) to get us thinking and chatting. It’s our first meeting – so be an early adopter and come along.

Please let us know if you are coming by sending a quick RSVP to servicedesigningau@gmail.com.

Suze Ingram and I met up today for the first time and agreed a date for the first Service Design Drinks for Australia.

I have already reserved www.servicedesigning.com.au which we will activate over the next week. Suze will design some graphics and away we go. If you would like more details, please email me damian.kernahan@protopartners.com.au or contact Suze at suze.ingram@gmail.com.

More details once we book a venue.

Stay in touch via the blog or learn more about Service Design at Proto Partners website.