Gert Pasman
Faculty of Industrial Design engineering, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
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Published in: Service Design Geographies. Proceedings of the ServDes.2016 Conference
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 125:44, p. 511-515
Published: 2016-05-17
ISBN: 978-91-7685-738-0
ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
Many of the techniques service designers currently use to represent their ideas in the conceptual phase of their design process, such as service blueprints or customer journey maps, are rather abstract, static and schematic. While this might be valuable from an analytical, high-level perspective, such representations do not address the full contextual, emotional and spatial-temporal richness of real-life services. This paper argues that design fiction, because of its focus on telling stories about possible implications of new and emerging technologies, could have the potential to address this particular issue early on. While design fiction is currently mostly associated with more ‘underground’ design domains, such as speculative design and critical design, its principles might also be applied to service design, to visualize, explore and probe potential service scenarios already in the beginning of a design process.
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