Public services: revolution or evolution?

Quality of service is often all that separates one business from another. And it's just as important in deciding whether a public service will succeed or not. It all comes down to the experience the customer has - is the service easy to use or confusing? Does it give people what they expect and what they need? Do they get it where and when they want it?

Read on for more on our work with public services, our thoughts on design and the government's Big Society vision, and for articles on how service designers are delivering public sector transformation.

Nat Wei

Big Society

In a major seminar series, hosted by the Institute for Government, the Design Council and NESTA, public service leaders will debate the challenges and opportunities of implementing Big Society public services.

Public Services by Design workshop

Public Services by Design

Our Public Services by Design programme is supporting public sector managers through design projects and helping them deliver better public services through design innovation. Find out more about our work on Public Services by Design

Sir Michael Bichard

Service design in the media

Designers are experts at working out what people need and how best to provide it, so it follows that service design is a growing discipline with a lot to offer public services. We've helped spread that message through media projects with the Guardian and the SOLACE Foundation.

Public Services by Design

 

10 match-funded places available to ambitious public sector organisations.

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