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Open Experience Journey Design: Developing an approach to the collaborative user-driven ideation for innovative services

Masanao Takeyama
Keio University, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Kahoru Tsukui
Keio University, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Hiroshi Yamaguchi
Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd., Media Technology Research Center, Tokyo, Japan

Goro Motai

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Published in: ServDes.2012 Conference Proceedings Co-Creating Services; The 3rd Service Design and Service Innovation Conference; 8-10 February; Espoo; Finland

Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 67:27, p. 265-272

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Published: 2013-10-16

ISBN: 978-91-7519-482-0

ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)

Abstract

Most of service design projects are usually executed for the sake of providers of these services; whether they are profit-seeking companies or are non-profit public organizations. Although such a provider oriented design approach is appropriate for reforming existing services or for transforming these into a new ones; the scope of innovation is inevitably biased toward the interest and competence of the provider. We introduce in this paper a user driven design approach for service innovation called Open Experience Journey Design; which allows users or consumers themselves to ideate desirable services in collaboration with each other without specifying any predetermined service provider. In particular; Open Experience Journey Design incorporates imaginative association techniques to assist and promote to generate innovative ideas beyond the boundary of conventional thinking. By testing the approach in a service design workshop; it is revealed that the ideation techniques indeed stimulate to create an idea for a service system; connecting two different utilities into a consistent user value chain. Based on these findings; we further developed an online platform called Experience Journey Laboratory to integrate the technique of crowdsourcing with Open Experience Journey Design.

Keywords

Open innovation; crowdsourcing; collaborative design; experience journey

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