Johan Blomkvist

PhD student, Service Design

Interaction & Service Design Research (IxS), part of MDA Lab
Division of Human-Centered Systems (HCS)
Department of Computer and Information Science
Linköpings universitet
SE-581 83 Linköping, Sweden

Research interests

The main focus of my PhD prject is service prototyping. I approach the topic by interviewing practicing service designers and by looking at the result of prototyping activities in service design projects. The research aims at defining and conceptualising service prototyping and understanding the constraints and possibilities associated with prototyping for services.

On a larger scale I hope to be able to contibute knowledge about new techniques and approaches to prototyping when the object of design is largely intangible and made up of interactions between humans.