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Digital service design playbook

Use our digital service design playbook to take on complex service design and delivery challenges.

It's a collection of plays containing activities and workshops that can help you to design and deliver better products and services. Each play has detailed instructions and templates to help you easily run them for your project.

The playbook content aligns with the Digital services policy and Digital service standard for Queensland Government.

This is a beta product. Your feedback will help us improve the product over time.

Using the playbook

Get started here with

  • How to use the playbook
  • Stages of the service design and delivery process
  • Making game plans
  • Facilitating accessible and inclusive sessions
  • More...

Planning

Set your project team up for success with these plays

  • Create a multi-disciplinary team
  • Team charter
  • Stakeholder mapping
  • Retrospective
  • More...

The discovery stage

Explore the problem and develop a deep understanding of what your users need with

  • Problem definition
  • Desktop research
  • Service ecosystem map
  • User research
  • More...

The alpha stage

Ideate and experiment to find the right solution with

  • Impact mapping
  • Defining success
  • Ideation
  • Prototyping
  • More...

The beta stage

Build and test a solution based on validated hypotheses and gather feedback from users with

  • Measuring success
  • Usability testing
  • Design critique
  • Retrospective
  • More...

The live stage

Maintain and improve the service through a pilot and official launch with

  • Ideation
  • Prototyping
  • User interviews
  • Measuring success
  • More...

All plays

Search all plays in the playbook

Playbook help

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