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Books

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Last updated 5 months ago

There is a large number of books on service design out there. We highlighted some of our favourites in this article on the .

Furthermore, we strongly encourage you to read the business bestsellers This is Service Design Thinking and . TiSDT is the theoretical foundation and the background why Smaply was founded, and TiSDD comes with an extra smaller book on how to go about Service Design projects.

top 20 design thinking books
This is Service Design Doing