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Service Design YAP

Service Design Network UK

Service Design YAP is a community podcast from Service Design Network UK"s chapter. Each episode profiles a member of the design community, exploring the lessons they"ve learned on their career path and the hearing their favourite design war stories. Why did we set up YAP?Well, many designers work in isolation and find it difficult to attend physical community meets ups. The podcast provides a way for everyone to tap into the community, to learn a little about craft and careers and to feel a part of

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44:33

From crying in the shower to creative leadership,...

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2025/11/19

Send us a text Does the 21st century need a new leadership paradigm? Rama Geheerawo thinks that we do. Through his work with global large enterprises, he's found that bringing a design sensibility to the task of redefining better formats for leadership has yielded "Ah Ha" moments as well as real commercial impact. About Rama: Prof. Rama Gheerawo is a global authority on inclusive design and creative leadership, working at the intersection of innovation, business, and human...

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38:14

Are you a Design Leader or a Business Leader? YAP...

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2025/10/16

Send us a text In this episode we talk to Marzia Aricò about design leadership and Marzia shares great stories that illustrate the key to creating traction and long-term impact as a design leader. We particularly liked talking about Marzia's experience of taking design into London Business School and the challenges that she faced repositioning design as a way to generate commercial value, rather than a form of corporate entertainment or light relief. Marzia shares practical tips f...

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31:46

Service Design Global Conference 25: Exclusive Sneak...

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2025/09/19

Send us a text The Service Design Global Conference is just under a month away, but we couldn't resist grabbing time with design podcast legends, and conference keynote presenters Jesse James Garrett and Peter Merholz. The founders of Adaptive Path and now co-hosts of Finding Our Way (its the design podcast that we want to be when we grow up), will be looking at how design leadership needs to evolve and how taking inspiration from leaders in "design adjacent" lines of busine...

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25:51

Service Design Global Conference 25: Exclusive Sneak...

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2025/09/07

Send us a text In this bonus episode we speak to Yvonne Tran, product design director at the New York Times, AND Shipra Kayan, Miro's Chief Design Evangelist, AND Shelley Evenson, a founding SDN member and Berkeley Design Fellow. So many stellar guests can only mean one thing: Service Design Global Conference is around the corner. Each speaker gives us an exclusive peek into their conference keynote and shares their views on what skills and kno...

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46:57

Leading Service Design Spanners, with Mark Howell.

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2025/08/28

Send us a text Mark Howell, has had a rich and varied career. He's the only person that I know that has a PhD in IVR. In this episode Mark shares his approach to service design leadership. He talks about intentionally crating a culture underpinned by rituals, how modelling the positive behaviours and carving out time to do Individual Contributor, hands-on work means that he never loses touch with the changing shape of service design practice. He also talks about the "secret...

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36:29

Thinking about Inclusive Design Research, with Ashley...

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2025/07/17

Send us a text Design research is tricky. When you work with a great design researcher you get to see the skill and subtlety involved in executing research that avoids biases and reveals fresh insights. When your research participants are neurodiverse the task of the design researcher becomes even more complex, but this is where this episode's guest, Ashley Peacock has developed her expertise. Ashley shares her career story and talks about the tactics that make design resea...

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41:36

What D-School forgot to teach designers about...

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2025/06/10

Send us a text In this episode we speak with Lyle Sandler. I met Lyle when he was CDO at Aon, the mega-insurance firm, and it was clear from the off-set that he was a natural story teller. As you'll hear, he doesn't think that he's a natural storyteller. He's learned tactics and religiously rehearses his stories so that they land and create the right impact. Lyle has bottled 100 of these tactics in his new book Universal Principles of Storytelling for Designers, which...

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61:38

How to pitch and deliver great work when your client...

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2025/05/07

Send us a text In this episode we meet John Lynch, founder of Context Studio based in Dublin, Ireland. John's career path has taken him from countries where design is part of everyone's mindset, to places where some businesses have yet to see the full value that design can bring. He shares the approaches that he's used to gain traction and make the case for adopting Service Design and stories of how design-led approaches have helped his teams to engage diverse stakeholder groups a...

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41:26

Design's role in transformation programs with...

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2025/04/14

Send us a text Design is often seen as an activity that happens at the front-end of transformation programs, but what if companies adopted a design-led approach to their overarching transformation? In this episode, we catch up with the legendary Ben Reason, founder of Livework Studio to hear about the firms 6 pillars of design led-transformation, the work that Livework has done with Adidas, TFL, Kone and the NHS (and to get a glimpse into Livework's three, top sectret trophy cabinets). Check ...

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46:42

Designing the world's best digital transport...

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2025/03/05

Send us a text Tubes, trains, boats, trams, bikes, busses and even a cable car combine to make Transport for London (TFL), a system that helps 9 million Londoners and a few tourists navigate the world's greatest city. Designing the digital tools that help people to turn complex logistics into practical travel plans is no mean feat, but that's exactly what Hanna Kops and her team did with the TFL Go app. In this episode Hanna tells us the story of how the TFL Digital Experie...

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48:16

Emergency Service Design: How design is reshaping...

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2025/02/06

Send us a text When the Scotland consolidated its police forces it saw an opportunity to add a Service Design team to the new organisation. Not only would this team make a material contribution to Police Scotland's radical transformation, they would also become a core part of the force's new ways of working. In this episode we're joined my Chris Muir, who tells the story of how he discovered service design and how he and the Police Scotland Service Design team work with officers a...

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14:45

The AI YAP Episode

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2025/01/16

Send us a textIn this short, bonus edition of YAP we spend time thinking about and playing with AI. Most designers state that AI will become the most powerful design tool of the decade, enabling then to mine the world's data and find inspiration to create better products and services. Designers who remember sign painters being replaced by naff vinyl sign printing machines see AI as a cut-price competitor rather than a tool. ( Sign Painters is a great -if niche- documentary) S...

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63:58

Improv as a Prototype and other tactics designers...

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2024/12/17

Send us a textIn this festive bonus episode of Service Design YAP, we sit down with Adam St John Lawrence to understand how he uses tactics and techniques from theatre in his design work.Adam, the goatee sporting GOAT of Service Design, draws on an "eclectic" background that includes farming and psychology (plus some bouncing and stripping), to offer some radical challenges to design’s dusty “best practices”. He a natural raconteur who tell stories and shares insight that ev...

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43:22

How your design superpowers can spark innovation with...

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2024/12/03

Send us a textHow can you encourage a retail bank, which will always focus on risk management and stability, to innovate? In this episode we talk with Ian Crawford, NatWest Group's Head of Innovation Design. We explore the ways in which designers are uniquely positioned to help corporate innovation programs to think differently.Ian shares how his group interviews design candidates to evaluate their innovation mindsets, and talks about the trends that his group believe will reshape ...

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43:06

Meet the Next Generation Service Designers (Recorded...

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2024/11/12

Send us a textIn this episode we get inspired by 7 incredible next generation Service Designers. We find out about how they view the world of design, where they go to get inspired, them and which emoji or meme best represents their design styles.Featured in this episode:Marcela Gómez AbundisEva Mega AstriaJane Tzu-Yuan ChaoAnna HanJihee HwangLinda PaulauskaAgata Kowalska Resources Listed In this Episode. Marcela's Mega List of Design Resources Notion PageUserpalooza- A Field Researcher'...

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45:40

Why magicians make the best designers, with Adrian...

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2024/10/22

Send us a textSpecial Projects' co-founder, Adrian Westaway talks to us about his journey from amateur magician to master designer and how the skills of illusion can be applied to drive better design outcomes. Design and magic are both human centric disciplines that leverage psychology to influence behaviours and attitudes; and both benefit from "someone spending more time on something than anybody would reasonably expect". We talk about: Adrian's experience at the burlesqu...

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35:54

How should seasoned service designers invest their...

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2024/09/17

Send us a textOften as not, we get to the end of the year and find that we haven't used up all, (or any) of our training allowance. We know that this is doubly true for more experienced hires who want to focus on "craft" rather that those exploring the "leadership" pathway. Exciting client work keeps getting in the way, but that's no excuse. In this episode we talk with two accredited Master Service Designers, Katie Murrie and Kim Anderson. Both work as educato...

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27:23

Farmer-Centred Design: An award winning project from...

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2024/09/09

Send us a textThe finalists for the Service Design Global Conference awards have just been announced, so we thought that it would be a good time to catch up with one of last year's award nominees to hear about their project and how they benefited from participating in thew awards. In this episode we talk to Andy Pattichis and Pinja Piipponen from Hellon, the design an innovation consultancy. They tell us about their project helping farmers navigate the decisions that b...

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11:57

Exploring the Service Design Global Conference in...

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2024/09/02

Send us a textThe Service Design Global Conference (SDGC) is heading our way at pace and its now only a month until the mass ranks of over 1,000 service designers make their way to Finland for three days talk, studio visits and sauna.In this bonus episode SDN's David Russo gives us a guided tour of the venue, keynote speakers and SDN sauna etiquette (towels on vs. towels off*).This year SDGC will focus on Designing for Impact: "Strategic Leadership with Service Design”. Focu...

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32:10

Thinking about Inclusive Service Design with Elle Beange

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2024/08/12

Send us a Text Message.To kick off Service Design YAP's second series we knew that we needed to tackle a heavy weight issue. Having collaborated with the UK charity Scope, and Deloitte Digital earlier in the year we knew that Inclusive Design would be a great topic to focus on. In this episode we talk with Deloitte's Elle Beange, who has worked in the area of inclusive and accessible design for all of her career. We talk about the difference between universal design and incl...

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