Service Design: Thinking Holistically About Services and Technology
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The document discusses the importance of service design and design thinking in libraries, emphasizing a holistic approach to improving services through deep user understanding and experimentation. It describes specific strategies for enhancing library spaces and services, as well as the creation of a service design task force to implement these ideas. A case study on a scheduling application highlights the goals and methodologies for modernizing library resources to better serve user needs.
Service Design: Thinking Holistically About Services and Technology
- 1. Service Design: Thinking Holistically about Services & Technology Rachel Vacek & Ken Varnum | 2018 LITA Library Technology Forum Service Design Thinking Holistically about Services & Technology Rachel Vacek Head of Design & Discovery rvacek@umich.edu @vacekrae Ken Varnum Senior Program Manager varnum@umich.edu @varnum November 10, 2018
- 2. Service Design: Thinking Holistically about Services & Technology Rachel Vacek & Ken Varnum | 2018 LITA Library Technology Forum Activity, Part 1: Identifying a Challenge 1. Individually, think about how problems might be solved in some institutions with: ● People (We need a committee!) ● Technology (Hey, look at this thing I saw at a conference. Go do that.) ● Money (We’ll get students to do it, or create a position.) Think of a situation where one of these approaches to problem solving was taken in your library. Time: 2 minutes
- 3. Service Design: Thinking Holistically about Services & Technology Rachel Vacek & Ken Varnum | 2018 LITA Library Technology Forum Design thinking is a design methodology that relies on the deep interest in developing an understanding of the people for whom we're designing things, and provides a solution-based approach, often through experimentation and empathy, to arrive at innovative solutions. Inspired by the multiple definitions listed on https://medium.com/@diogorebelo/difference-between-design-thinking-and-service-design-35e33044d413
- 4. Service Design: Thinking Holistically about Services & Technology Rachel Vacek & Ken Varnum | 2018 LITA Library Technology Forum Service design is about applying design thinking in creative and practical ways to improve the user and employee experience in existing services or in new services. Inspired by the multiple definitions listed on https://medium.com/@diogorebelo/difference-between-design-thinking-and-service-design-35e33044d413 and by the Nielsen Norman Group’s definition at https://www.nngroup.com/articles/service-design-101/
- 5. Service Design: Thinking Holistically about Services & Technology Rachel Vacek & Ken Varnum | 2018 LITA Library Technology Forum So why are we here to talk with you about service design?
- 6. Service Design: Thinking Holistically about Services & Technology Rachel Vacek & Ken Varnum | 2018 LITA Library Technology Forum Background
- 7. Service Design: Thinking Holistically about Services & Technology Rachel Vacek & Ken Varnum | 2018 LITA Library Technology Forum Library goals on space and service planning Take a strategic approach to physical space planning Create welcoming, accessible, safe buildings and services Transform organizational culture
- 8. Service Design: Thinking Holistically about Services & Technology Rachel Vacek & Ken Varnum | 2018 LITA Library Technology Forum Collaboration with brightspot https://www.brightspotstrategy.com/
- 9. Service Design: Thinking Holistically about Services & Technology Rachel Vacek & Ken Varnum | 2018 LITA Library Technology Forum Library Service Philosophy 1. Enhance the Platform for Discovery through foundational changes to physical and digital space usability, access, and navigation. 2. Accelerate Partnerships in Scholarship by engaging with library users and working with them throughout the service experience. 3. Deliver as One Library with a shared service philosophy and improved library staff workspace.
- 10. Service Design: Thinking Holistically about Services & Technology Rachel Vacek & Ken Varnum | 2018 LITA Library Technology Forum Library Service Framework
- 11. Service Design: Thinking Holistically about Services & Technology Rachel Vacek & Ken Varnum | 2018 LITA Library Technology Forum Service Design Task Force (SDTF) Rachel Vacek Head of Design & Discovery Library IT Emily Puckett Rodgers Head of Library Environments Operations Meghan Sitar Director of Connected Scholarship Learning & Teaching
- 12. Service Design: Thinking Holistically about Services & Technology Rachel Vacek & Ken Varnum | 2018 LITA Library Technology Forum Service Teams The SDTF activated three service teams focused on deep dives and pilot/prototyping work around three plays identified in the Hatcher-Shapiro Library Service and Space Strategy Playbook: ● Digital Scholarship ● Consultation ● Staff Innovation Additional service teams formed: ● Citation Management ● Library as Research Lab ● Library Lifecycle (UX Toolkit)
- 13. Service Design: Thinking Holistically about Services & Technology Rachel Vacek & Ken Varnum | 2018 LITA Library Technology Forum Exploring Issues Analysis Generating & Exploring Ideas Synthesis ~19 weeks Dive into issues from diverse perspectives against different time considerations Clarify what is important to who and why Create and explore alternatives from different perspectives Define how to explore implications of new concepts and build knowledge Inspiration Ideation Iteration Our approach to service design
- 14. Service Design: Thinking Holistically about Services & Technology Rachel Vacek & Ken Varnum | 2018 LITA Library Technology Forum Team deliverables ● Recommendations for pilots and prototypes, and other possible next steps ● Service Blueprint
- 15. Service Design: Thinking Holistically about Services & Technology Rachel Vacek & Ken Varnum | 2018 LITA Library Technology Forum From: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/service-design-101 Service Blueprint
- 16. Service Design: Thinking Holistically about Services & Technology Rachel Vacek & Ken Varnum | 2018 LITA Library Technology Forum Frontstage vs. Backstage From: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/service-blueprints-definition/
- 17. Service Design: Thinking Holistically about Services & Technology Rachel Vacek & Ken Varnum | 2018 LITA Library Technology Forum Activity, Part 2: Pairing Up to Discuss Challenges 1. Pair up with someone in the room. 2. We previously asked you to think about a problem in your library that you’ve been trying to solve with people, money, or technology. Take turns talking about whether a service design approach might have been better instead. Time: 5 minutes total
- 18. Service Design: Thinking Holistically about Services & Technology Rachel Vacek & Ken Varnum | 2018 LITA Library Technology Forum Case Study: Scheduling Application for Library Instruction (SALI)
- 19. Service Design: Thinking Holistically about Services & Technology Rachel Vacek & Ken Varnum | 2018 LITA Library Technology Forum What is SALI? ● Key service for our library: teaching library resources and techniques ● Home grown application ○ Fragile, desperately needing some TLC ● Provides a way for people throughout U-M to request library instruction sessions ● Enables library staff to schedule rooms and make arrangements for those sessions
- 20. Service Design: Thinking Holistically about Services & Technology Rachel Vacek & Ken Varnum | 2018 LITA Library Technology Forum Project Goals ● Pay off huge technical debt and refresh the interface ● Harmonize actual campus and library workflows with tool ● Enable multiple use cases ● Make it more usable, accessible, responsive, and themable ● Improve data flows from campus systems into the tool ● Improve data flows from the tool for activity reporting and learning analytics ● And, modernize antiquated codebase and deprecated APIs
- 21. Service Design: Thinking Holistically about Services & Technology Rachel Vacek & Ken Varnum | 2018 LITA Library Technology Forum Moving from This Reality
- 22. Service Design: Thinking Holistically about Services & Technology Rachel Vacek & Ken Varnum | 2018 LITA Library Technology Forum To This (Not Yet Final) Future
- 23. Service Design: Thinking Holistically about Services & Technology Rachel Vacek & Ken Varnum | 2018 LITA Library Technology Forum Developing a Service Blueprint for SALI
- 24. Service Design: Thinking Holistically about Services & Technology Rachel Vacek & Ken Varnum | 2018 LITA Library Technology Forum Met with various constituencies to understand their met and unmet workflows & functionality needs ● Library instruction staff ● Other library staff ● Campus faculty & GSIs Used InVision to display limited interactive displays Held design reviews with stakeholders Interviews & Conversations
- 25. Service Design: Thinking Holistically about Services & Technology Rachel Vacek & Ken Varnum | 2018 LITA Library Technology Forum SALI Service Blueprints
- 26. Service Design: Thinking Holistically about Services & Technology Rachel Vacek & Ken Varnum | 2018 LITA Library Technology Forum Preliminary Service Blueprint
- 27. Service Design: Thinking Holistically about Services & Technology Rachel Vacek & Ken Varnum | 2018 LITA Library Technology Forum Future State Service Blueprint
- 28. Service Design: Thinking Holistically about Services & Technology Rachel Vacek & Ken Varnum | 2018 LITA Library Technology Forum Going from Blueprint to Reality
- 29. Service Design: Thinking Holistically about Services & Technology Rachel Vacek & Ken Varnum | 2018 LITA Library Technology Forum Translate the Blueprint into Agile Framework ● The past service blueprinting is prelude to active development work ● In the Agile model we use, we craft User Stories to describe user needs and Tasks to make them real ● Some stories are bigger than others. These are Epics. ● You may use different methods, but the blueprint will help them, too
- 30. Service Design: Thinking Holistically about Services & Technology Rachel Vacek & Ken Varnum | 2018 LITA Library Technology Forum Lessons Learned for Future Projects Service Design Blueprints ● Provide a construct for looking at service and user needs holistically ● They don’t say how to build the tool, but they clarify why it is needed and what it should do ● Works well with new services and bringing old tools in line with current services
- 31. Service Design: Thinking Holistically about Services & Technology Rachel Vacek & Ken Varnum | 2018 LITA Library Technology Forum Activity, Part 3: Sharing 1. Think about the challenge you identified earlier. 2. If you’re willing, share the challenge with the room and how you think going through the process to create a service design blueprint might help the situation. Time: 5 minutes
- 32. Service Design: Thinking Holistically about Services & Technology Rachel Vacek & Ken Varnum | 2018 LITA Library Technology Forum Questions? Rachel Vacek Head of Design & Discovery rvacek@umich.edu @vacekrae Ken Varnum Senior Program Manager varnum@umich.edu @varnum Hatcher Graduate Library This presentation is online at https://doi.org/2027.42/146184