Module 1: Introduction to Service Design and its impact

• Introduction to service design with examples of the impact of innovative services
• Overview of service design methodology & approach
• Online service design tools - white boards, digital post-its and social media

Module 2: Discovery

• Setting a challenge – define a challenge & opportunity to bring service design to life
• Who are you designing for? - customers, employees & stakeholders
• Gaining user insight – human-centred research methods, service safaris, Jobs To Be Done & other experiential research methods.
• Customer journey mapping – understanding end-to-end experiences & the systems that create them, using ‘design thinking’ methodology & the double diamond framework
• Analysis of Pain Points - frame the brief

Module 3: Definition and Design

• Learn creative design techniques – co-creation, brainstorming and concept creation
• Visualising concepts and rapid prototyping – bringing concepts to life, storyboarding, sketching, role play and mock ups to visualise ideas and be ready to test with ourselves and end Users.

Module 4: Concept Delivery and Measuring Success

• Service blue-printing & delivering change across your organisation
• Experimentation, prototyping & piloting for deployment
• System Thinking & cultural change
• Presentation of design concepts, delivery plan & metrics for success.

At the heart of the course is the opportunity to apply service design in various contexts. We aim for the learning to directly relate to participants' work, allowing them to bring ideas and practical tools back to their workplace. Each participant is asked to think about an opportunity and a challenge in their organisation that they're open to discussing with others in the course. The course leader creates group challenges based on these shared issues and interests, which the teams can then refine together at the beginning of the course.

Previous challenge briefs have covered sustainability, net zero, travel, the future of work, retail and the high street, transport experience and ageing.

Disclaimer: The information given is accurate at the time of publication, however, the RCA reserves the right to amend the described course as circumstances dictate.

The benefits to you and your organisation include:

• access to global best practice in service design
• apply service design in various contexts
• learn empathic understanding of users/customers
• return to your organisation with new techniques and strategies to put into practice, from improving service design management to incorporating user journey mapping more effectively
• experience critical, creative and insightful thinking
• interact and network with peers from different backgrounds and functions
• support and guidance during the sessions from top RCA Service Design MA student and recent graduate facilitators
• a certificate of online attendance.

You will learn:

• how to apply service design methodology and frameworks to create better customer experiences
• real-world applications of service design and how it is transforming organisations
• creative design techniques.

This interactive online course is divided into four sessions taken over a two-week period.

Learning will take place in live sessions of three-and-a-half hours each.

You will learn through live lectures, interactive workshops and homework. Top RCA Service Design MA students and recent graduates facilitate on the course. Previous participants have praised them for their professionalism and supportiveness.

Participants are expected to work in small groups.

The course is organised in synchronous sessions in a live virtual environment that combines various digital platforms and tools.

Zoom
Using the videoconferencing service Zoom, the RCA's esteemed academics and facilitators deliver a mix of:

• live lectures
• case studies
• guided assessments
• presentations

Participants interact with the faculty and peers in breakout rooms in real time.

Miro

Participants engage in cross-functional team work with the use of visual collaboration tools.

Through the online whiteboard platform Miro, participants get to:

• interact with various formats and templates
• plan and brainstorm ideas
• create processes and workshop activities in the digital workspace.

Moodle

The College's learning platform Moodle is personalised according to the course's requirements to provide participants with a secure integrated system where they can access the course content.

The hub hosts a range of useful resources to enable the learning experience, including comprehensive timetables, pre-reading materials, course slides, curated videos, tutorials and session recordings.

Slack

Participants stay connected and communicate via the channel-based messaging platform Slack throughout the whole duration of the course.

In this space, the academics, facilitators and delegates get to network, plan the course activities, share documents and files during the live sessions or offline.

Anyone interested in transforming their organisation through the application of service design, including:

• service delivery teams wanting to improve customer experience
• private and public sector executives and senior managers wanting to reframe and solve their issues and deliver opportunities
• designers want to be more strategic and learn new tools
• entrepreneurs who want to deliver their ideas
• innovation teams who want to deliver effective innovation
• customer experience and service commissioners wanting to deliver better services.

It would be helpful to:

• have a basic understanding of human-centred design principles and design thinking
• be comfortable with new digital tools.