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Service Design Innovation MDes This course gives you opportunities to design radical new services that are essential for business models, as well as being ethical and sustainable. Duration: 1 year full-time 2 years part time  Term starts: September 2019   Careers The Service Design Innovation MDes course will provide you with the opportunity to use design thinking as a device for modelling multi-platform service experiences. You will be working on real business-related scenarios across all sectors – government, business and civil society – and engage with end users through prototyping, testing, and co-designing new services. are also encouraged to develop their own approaches and to respond to emerging industry practices. Learners will benefit from staff research interests in methodology and in user experience design strategies. They may also have the opportunity to participate in one of Ravensbourne’s regular industry development projects with a strong service design dimension. The Course Service Design Innovation is based on the idea that an effective service is built by gaining a deep understanding of the interaction between organisations, business and the end user and to embrace project management as a creative approach. Students use a specific set of methods and processes based on design thinking. In particular this course will require you to develop the ability to design user research, to facilitate stakeholder workshops, and to project manage a service design process. For more information ravensbourne.ac.uk/service- design-innovation-mdes Students are introduced to a range of concepts such as co-design, user driven innovation, open innovation and stakeholder management. They 78 Entry requirements: 89 How to apply:   90