Design-Driven Service Innovation: Introducing Techniques for Changing the Meaning of a Service - Takeyama, Tsukui, Yamaguchi, Matsuo
1. Design-Driven Service Innovation
introducing techniques to change the meaning of a service
Masanao Takeyama, Kahoru Tsukui,
Keio University
Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Kanako Matsuo
Dai Nippon Printing Co, Ltd.
2. 1. User-Centered
2. Co-Creative
3. Sequencing
4. Evidencing
5. Holistic
• Contextual user research
• Co-design workshops
• Participatory design methods
• Transformation design approach
Emphasis on user(human)-centeredness in service design
SD’s FIVE PRINCIPLES
Techniques to involve users:
3. Drastic change does not come from HCD approach (only)!
(Norman & Verganti, 2011)
5. The Process Structure of DDI approach
(2) INTERPRETING People
(3) ADDRESSING
(1) LISTENING
Interpreter
Interpreter
InterpreterInterpreterInterpreter
Interpreter
Interpreter
Knowledge on
changes in the life
context
Interpreter
Seductive
Power
Translation of knowledge into
new product meaning
Resort to the expressive power
of interpreters
6. Limited applications of DDI to service design research
Using DDI to servitize existing
products
(Baha et al., 2014)
Comparison between DDI and
Design Thinking (HCD)
(Schmiedgen, 2011)
Combination of DDI and HCD
found in service designers’
practices
(Wetter-Edman, 2011)
7. Barriers against the application of DDI to service design
Focus on product innovation
Few examples of service innovation
Theoretically formulated
Procedure, techniques and tools for practicing DDI are NOT provided
Innovation driven by the top management and elite experts
Actual DDI procedure is left for the strategy and creativity of each company
Need techniques to guide and assist both designers and non-
designers to practice DDI approach for service design projects
8. The focuses of Design-Driven Service Innovation Method
(2) INTERPRETING People
(3) ADDRESSING
(1) LISTENING
Interpreter
Interpreter
InterpreterInterpreterInterpreter
Interpreter
Interpreter
Interpreter
Seductive
Power
New
Meanings and
languages
DDSI
Promoting
more people to
try DDI approach
for SD projects
techniques
9. DDSI’s 3 Techniques to Facilitate Strategic Meaning Change
(A)
Contextual
Reframing
(B)
Structural
Interpreting
(C)
Contextual
Blending
LISTENING INTERPRETING
Change
context
Learn from
interpreters
Translate
knowledge
Generate
service
meaning
Study
service
meaning
(PROCESS)
DDSI
TECHNIQUES
(STAGE)
( )
10. A Virtual Project: Radical innovation of (foods) supermarket
Service Innovation
Project Team
12. ?
Supermarket
Which context should we look at
to find a new meaning for the service?
A. Contextual reframing
In a DDI project, the design team should first ask
16. Supermarket
Preparing
meals
at home
Major societal changes
happening recently in Japan
ü More females entering into
workforce.
ü # of double-income
households increases.
ü Men have been spent much
less time for housework than
women have.
Housework
as tough burden
for working
couples
A. Contextual reframing
Need Solution!
But it is more promising for an innovation project
to look at an extended life context which is related
to some emerging important social issues
17. Supermarket
Preparing
meals
at home
Major societal changes
happening recently in Japan
More females entering into
workforce
# of double-income
households increases
Males have been spend
much less time for
housework than women do
Key interpreters
Service Innovation
Project Team
Housework
as tough
burden
for working
couples
A. Contextual reframing
Family psychologist
Ar'st couple
Work/life style
researcher
Creator of ad agency
Author of books on
housework sharing
Female
entrepreneur
19. Key interpreters’ unique views
B. Structural Interpreting
Housework as creative project
Collaboration by a couple
Imagination-seeking
20. Key interpreters’ unique views
B. Structural Interpreting
Housework as burden
Division of labor within a couple
Housework as creative project
Collaboration by a couple
Imagination-seeking Efficiency-seeking
Majority’s dominant view
21. Key interpreters’ unique views
B. Structural Interpreting
Housework as burden
Division of labor within a couple
Housework as creative project
Collaboration by a couple
Imagination-seeking Efficiency-seeking
Majority’s dominant view
What a kind of essential life theme found in this perspective change?
22. Key interpreters’ unique views
B. Structural Interpreting
Housework as burden
Division of labor within a couple
Housework as creative project
Collaboration by a couple
Imagination-seeking Efficiency-seeking
Majority’s dominant view
25. Key interpreters’ unique views
B. Structural Interpreting
Housework as burden
Division of labor within a couple
Housework as creative project
Collaboration by a couple
Imagination-seeking Efficiency-seeking
Majority’s dominant view
26. My responsibility scope
(My spouse’s freedom level)
My freedom level
(My spouse’s
responsibility scope)
Happy for me
Unhappy for my spouse
Unhappy for me
Happy for my spouse
B. Structural Interpreting
27. My responsibility scope
(My spouse’s freedom level)
My freedom level
(My spouse’s
responsibility scope)
Collaborative
housework
Shift!
They can switch their
roles anytime and make a
collaborative team
formation according to
their work conditions
Housework
as
collaboration
project
Both spouses have wide-
range housework skills
B. Structural Interpreting
Key interpreter’s perception
32. Meal preparation
as a housework activity
Plan Shop Cook Set
Design project
Discover Define Develop Deliver
C. Contextual blending
33. Meal preparation
as a housework activity
Plan Shop Cook Set
Design project
Discover Define Develop Deliver
C. Contextual blending
34. Plan Shop Cook Set
Design project
Discover Define Develop Deliver
C. Contextual blending
Discover Define Develop Deliver
left foodstuff
Health condition
dinner theme
menu
recipe
ingredients
cooking
arrangement
Meal Preparation as a Design Project
Meal preparation
as a housework activity
35. C. Contextual blending
Discover Define Develop Deliver
left foodstuff
Health condition
dinner theme
menu
recipe
ingredients
cooking
arrangement
Meal Preparation as a Design Project (A New Context for Supermarket)
What is the meaning of a supermarket in this context?
36. C. Contextual blending
Discover Define Develop Deliver
left foodstuff
Health condition
dinner theme
menu
recipe
ingredients
cooking
arrangement
IDEATE NEW
MEANING
Supermarket staff
as a dining co-designer
Supermarket as a co-design lab.
38. Quick pick-up
for ordered foodstuff
and precooked meals
Chefs at the
supermarket can
precook dinner meals
based on the ideas
generated at DD Lab.
In-store precook
order
C. Contextual blending
A conceptual future supermarket store
A supermarket store
as a studio to precook home
dinner
40. Home meal
preparation
Housework
Co-design project Team sport
Meal preparation
as design project
Supermarket
as co-designer &
dining design lab.
Unique vision of
Key interpreters
C. Contextual blending
Imagination & Efficiency Freedom & Responsibility
Collaborative
Housework project
A.
Contextual
reframing
Emerging social concerns
Service
meaning
change
B.
Structural
interpreting
Supermarket
as grocery
The Structure of DDSI method
41. Discussions
• DDSI makes DDI approach more accessible to practitioners including non-
designers, promoting more challenges for drastic service innovation.
Besides we can expect that
• the meaning-context framework of DDSI facilitates designing the consistency
among service interactions, user experience, and user’s life context in which
the service is used.
• DDSI also supports service branding (service perception and relationship)
especially when the service and its brand communication reflects the
proposed vision of a life context for which customers feel empathy.
42. Future research
• Testing DDSI with real projects
– Is it always possible to represent key interpreter’s vision by the trade-off diagram?
– Is it always possible to find a nice analogical context for contextual blending? If so how could we?
• Extend the method to deal with DDI’s Addressing stage by incorporating
cultural prototypes of new service meaning.
• Extend further to promote technology epiphany, i.e., a merge of the radical
innovation of meanings with technological breakthrough (Verganti 2009).
48. Training
room
Locker
room
Cafeteria
Treatment
room
ENVIRONMENT
Planning Training Game Recovery
PROCESS
ROLES AND SKILLS
Strategy
meeting
room
Team sports
Structural
characteristics
C. Contextual blending
Field
Napping
room
Athletic trainer
Conditioning coach
Equipment manager
Analyst Nutritionist
Masseur
Medical trainer
Mental coach
Players
Team
sports