
 
6 CONCLUSIONS  
The paper discusses the process of building 
scenarios for ICT based services with the 
collaboration of users and stakeholders. This 
approach raise more and more interest both in public 
and private sector in order to develop effective 
solutions really adopted by the users. This holistic 
perspective to contexts analysis and problems 
detection is more and more used by Service Design 
to develop projects aimed at solving real problems 
and producing more sustainable solutions. In this 
field traditional tools used for research are adapted 
and re-designed to meet the need of involving 
individuals or groups into a co-generation process, 
supporting the inclusion of non-designers into the 
design process but also aligning the interest of 
potential stakeholders in the solution 
implementation. 
Moving from the experience achieved in 
previous projects, and taking into account the Smart 
Campus scenario building work, it appears evident 
the need to start right from the beginning to include 
potential users and stakeholders in this process. We 
can refer at the process of Service Design as divided 
in two parts: the design of the service concept and its 
prototyping and real implementation with local 
stakeholders. In both the phases, when the service 
concept needs to be defined and when the future 
ownership of the solutions generated is not yet 
determined,  PD approach seems to significantly 
increase the possibility of success for the service to 
be.  
PD is promising to develop services with the 
highest level of acceptance and adoption by their 
users and promoters. Nevertheless the experience 
achieved up to date indicates that in high complex 
condition involving different stakeholders on 
relevant topics, such as energy consumption, the 
success of the service can not be certain. 
The work done so far in Smart Campus to 
collaboratively build the project scenario will be the 
basis for the follow up of the project. Here 
designers’ work will focus on the development of 
the services concepts, defining the detail of the 
users’ journey through the service and which will be 
the touchpoints used to interact with the system. 
Then a strong effort will be addressed to the 
‘alignment’ of the stakeholders’ interests during the 
piloting and prototyping of the solutions, designing-
after-design (Bjögvinsson, Ehn & Hillgren 2012).  
This paper is a contribution on how services’ 
scenarios can be designed using PD. The future 
outcoms of the alignment and prototyping phase will 
integrate the results achieved, verifying the 
effectiveness of the PD approach towards the 
implementation of the services to be. 
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