What are tips to become a senior service designer?
In short: mentor others, teach others, try out new technics.
The most important thing to becoming a "senior" service designer is just old-school experience. You need to spend years working as a service designer and slowly but surely build the experience. It's not sexy, but that's basically it.
Sure, some things can help accelerate that path a little bit. For example:
- Mentoring younger service designers helps build your leadership skills. This can be done for example, via communities like ADPlists.
- Teaching service design helps strengthen your expertise.
- Trying out new technics and ways of working gives you more diverse experiences.
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