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Lou Downe


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Louise Downe writes under the pen name Lou Downe.

Director of Design and Service Standards for the UK Government, based at GDS and founder of service design in government, she was voted one of the UKs top 50 creative leaders,and one of world’s 100 most influential people in digital government.

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Why we need service literacy, now

In the winter of 2019, Paris was much like any other large northern European city; messy, imperfect, and cold.

But like every other city, there was a more deliberate force behind some of the mess if you looked closely. Paris was suffering the consequences of early 00s sharing-economy optimism; Its streets jammed with Ubers, snaking around blocks of ghost hotels.

One problem in particular was uppermo

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Published on November 23, 2021 23:00
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Good Services: Decoding the...

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“we now exist in a world where we compete on the quality of our services, not the strength of our messages.”
Lou Downe, Good Services: How to Design Services that Work

“When you’re making the purpose of your service clear, you’ll need to think about four distinct things – what your service does, why it does that thing, how it works and who it’s for.”
Lou Downe, Good Services: How to Design Services that Work



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