WIP SHOW 2021

future of work
During the recent pandemic, our cohort has been ideating, designing and learning new tools to aid our first service design projects. Remotely, we have managed to apply service design specific techniques to bring these projects to life. The experience truly helped shape how we worked as a team and cohort, and we are proud to share with you what we have achieved. 
Each category used the Design Council's Double Diamond as a structure to explore the projects further in a formulaic manner. We have the pleasure to showcase our work for our very first project. 
This project brief was based around the future of work. We have a range of examples that we are pleased to present for future collaboration opportunities. Alternatively, if you are here to see what we have achieved, welcome this is just the start of our journey!
What is a Service Designer?
This video's purpose is to break down the meaning of service design and how it relates to our values and goals. Each question was carefully curated to provoke what it means to be a service designer and how it can be perceived to others in the future. Being a service designer is challenging to define as it is one of many possibilities. Here is our take of what it means to be a service designer.
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Market traders
The recent pandemic had a lasting impact on market traders. The following projects take a deep dive into exploring how the market traders can adapt and make more of an effect to stay afloat. The topics range from educating customers, the impact of buying local, healthier eating options and maintaining a level of customer loyalty within the market trading ecosystem.
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Office Workers
In this project, the team decided to tap into the new lives of future office workers. This project is aimed to explore the realities of the traditional working atmosphere. This example hopes to translate the conventional office space to fit the new working from home culture. This vision of creating a seamless and natural office at home was a challenge ready to be taken apart, to then be put back together with transparent design methodologies and user research.
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Gig Economy
As the world starts to question and rely more than even on the gig economy, these select projects show a range of different approaches of the future within the gig economy. These projects have taken the definition of Gig economy and questioned what it means to be a part of such a broad umbrella term. The teams have worked on exploring the services of freelancers, buskers and blue-collar groups.
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