Chief Service Designer, Co-Founder, International Service Design Institute
Steven J. Slater
M.S. Johns Hopkins, M.A. American University, B.A. Syracuse University, I.B. International School of Geneva, Switz.
Steven has decades experience developing and improving Lines of Service across multiple sectors. Responsible for $2B+ in traceable revenue from service development.
He has worked with a number of top Fortune-500 companies in telecom, oil & gas, Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), IT, human capital, financial services, and other service-based industries. Additionally, he has extensive experience launching services in the public sector and non-profit sector.
Positions (Highlights): Booz Allen & Hamilton chief of staff, systems; International Affairs, Deputy Chief of Staff, Air Force; Jewish Federation Executive (responsible for conceiving and launching largest national online fundraising portal.) Award-winning national daily reporter.
Published Books
e-Courses
Service Design Connections
The Master
A Service Designer’s Handbook Vol. III
Acquire the knowledge to be a service design master, or simply challenge yourself. The Master is a collection of proven tools for achieving high-performing, quality services. Topics include prototyping services, measuring user experiences, diagnosing services, and service recovery.
– Loved reading your book. It’s a gem. If I were to summarize it down to an emoji – ?.
Kalyana Sundaram, Innovation Lead at Extentia Information Technology
Other Books
The Apprentice – A Service Designer’s Handbook, Vol. I
The Apprentice is a primer to spur new service designers into the field and encourage organizations to adopt service design techniques. The course originated as a way to address questions from those looking at service design for the first time. and also for leaders looking to understand how service design could benefit their organization.
The Journeyman – A Service Designer’s Handbook, Vol. II
The Journeyman explains common service design techniques, including popular models and tools–including a User Influence Model, Journey Maps, Service Blueprints and Touchpoints.
Be Relevant! How Brands Rise to the Top (non-profit ed.)
In an age when it is increasing difficult to grow membership and earn non-dues revenue, organizations are turning to service design to be relevant! Be Relevant! offers executives of non-profits a new, bold perspect on solving some of their most pressing problems.
International Service Design Institute’s Blog
The New Shopping Experience is here
International Service Design Institute The other day I bought two pair of Levi’s jeans, an otherwise non-event in clothes buying. But this journey opened my eyes into a changing face of clothing e-commerce retail. On its face, Amazon would face the biggest challenge...
Challenging Opportunities Await Service Designers
International Service Design Institute Service designers who responded to an ISDI Service Design 2022 Survey told researchers at the International Service Design Institute (ISDI) that they find their work challenging and exhilarating. Respondents indicated where they...
Calling on Service Providers: There Must Be An Easier Way To Protect Users
International Service Design Institute Someone got into my LinkedIn account twice in the past two months. Even with changing passwords, I was failing to prevent whomever from accessing my account — and coming up with their own passwords consequently locking me out. ...
What Service Designers Earn
International Service Design Institute A Service Design career offers competitive, liveable wages vis-a-vis similar fields, two independent studies of service designers around the world find. Service Design is a non-aesthetic design practice that helps service...
What is Service Design Really? Theory to Reality
International Service Design Institute There are different definitions of service design – many are aspirational ideas that originate in academia. As a practicing service designer, from my experience, the definitions that are often repeated are inadequate. The post...
Adopting Service Design into an organization’s operation
International Service Design Institute Here’s a quick primer on adopting Service Design that could not be linked, so it’s incorporated into our ISDI blog. Its importance is in line with how many organizations are adopting Service Design as part of their operations....
Taking Services Down The Road
International Service Design Institute Carol D. bought a Lexus in the mid-2000s equipped with a heads-up LED map display with maps located on CDs in the armrest. As the maps got out of date, the dealer offered to replace the CDs for $400. Her latest Lexus comes with...
Service Design Touchpoints (And How To Build Them)
International Service Design Institute Many service providers are not taking full advantage of Touchpoints, a communications channel that service providers use to communicate with users to enhance their experiences. Touchpoints are used for influencing users’...
Tufte’s 6 Principles for Graphical Integrity (Adopted for Service Design)
International Service Design Institute Numeric or quantitative results are opportunities to tell powerful narratives, the foremost expert on visualizing information Edward Tufte, says. Tufte, a statistician, and artist have written, designed, and self-published four...
What is Service Design?
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