Edinburgh UX monthly meetup

This month we are delighted to welcome Angela, Serena, Stéphanie and Vinishree - four service designers, passionate about supporting, growing and building the service design community in Scotland. In 2020, they interviewed service design practitioners and collected their stories. From 2021, they started sharing their insights with the aim of bringing the community together through shared experience and learning.

6.30pm - Intros & community announcements
6.45pm - Breakout chat
7pm - Practitioner Stories of Service design in the public and third sector in Scotland. Angela, Serena, Stéphanie and Vinishree will give you a tour of their research project exploring service design practice in the public and third sector in Scotland.

You can follow the project on...
Twitter: @PractitionerSt1
Medium: https://practitionerstories.medium.com/
Website: https://stephanie-k.github.io/practitioner-stories/

About our speakers
Angela has a mixed background in engineering and innovation/service design. She has been in Scotland since 2009, primarily working as an academic doing research and consultancy. In 2020, she finished a PhD looking at how people in Public Sector learn and evaluate design. She now works as a service design contractor in the public sector.

Serena currently works as a service designer for the policy profession unit at UK Government. Previously she worked for the Scottish Government helping to transform public services. She has a bachelor and master in design and is interested in understanding the role of design from policy up to the delivery of public services.

Stéphanie works as a service designer on projects for the public sector for Sopra Steria. She came to Scotland in 2005. Her background is in teaching and computing initially. She never really studied service design as such, but has learned by doing, in previous roles.

Vinishree comes with a background in architecture, industrial design and service design. She is keen on developing circular economy strategies for low carbon solutions through her initiative - Around Zero, and works as a service designer in Scotland.