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Touchpoint - The Journal of Service Design

Touchpoint
The Journal of Service Design

p-ISSN: 1868-6052
e-ISSN: 2940-2778

Editor-in-Chief:
Jesse Grimes

Service Design Network gGmbH
Mülheimer Freiheit 56
D-51063 Köln, Germany

Touchpoint is published three times a year in printed and in electronic form. The e-journal will be available from Logos Verlag Berlin. The print journal and all printed back issuses are avaliable from SDN.

Touchpoint - The Journal of Service Design, 17/2

Contents

Collaboration Architecture: Service Design for Knowledge Work : Organisations hand infrastructure work to IT too early
Anke Holst
pp: 6-11, 2026-06-18

Designing for Cohesive Service Delivery in Agentic Experiences : A design framework to moderate human-AI interactions
Emma Blackwell
pp: 12-16, 2026-06-18

From Regulation to Service : Designing public rules for clarity and impact
Lorenzo Zorzi, Niccolò Parini, Simone Bagnasco
pp: 17-19, 2026-06-18

Service Design as a Vehicle for Cooperative Thinking
Anannya Bhowmik Paul
pp: 20-23, 2026-06-18

When the Map Is Not Enough : Sense-making tools for complex adaptive systems
Kyle Godbey
pp: 26-30, 2026-06-18

The Front-Stage We Controlled Collapsed : Lessons from newsrooms
Madison Karas, Patrick Boehler
pp: 31-35, 2026-06-18

The Design Integrator Role : Governing AI from the inside
Merwad Abdallah
pp: 36-41, 2026-06-18

Learning As The North Star : When service design builds adaptive capacity
Jen Briselli
pp: 42-46, 2026-06-18

When Service Design Isn’t Enough
Celia Beketa
pp: 47-49, 2026-06-18

The Actors Missing From Our Service Maps : Extending the service blueprint through recognising the role of mediators
Palak Agrawal
pp: 50-53, 2026-06-18

Beyond Blueprints : From insight to impact in a utility organisation
Megan Gileza
pp: 54-58, 2026-06-18

When Transformation Becomes Entrapment : An ethics lens for services designed to change people
Ting-Han Daniel Chen
pp: 59-63, 2026-06-18

The AI Pace Problem : Repositioning the service blueprint
Suneet Kumar
pp: 64-69, 2026-06-18

The Designing Mind in the Age of AI : The material and the competency
Pontus Wärnestål
pp: 70-74, 2026-06-18

They Were Already Designing : What reception design asks of service design
Nada Jouibli
pp: 75-77, 2026-06-18

The End of Experience : What’s left to design when nearly everything can be intermediated?
Filip Makowiecki
pp: 78-82, 2026-06-18

A First Draft of Service Design’s Future : An invitation to challenge AI’s opening move
Markus Edgar Hormess, Bas Raijmakers
pp: 83-85, 2026-06-18

Proudly Porous : Service design was never meant to have borders
Sujeet Kumar
pp: 86-88, 2026-06-18

The Services We Don’t Design
Bianca Rivera Alvelo
pp: 89-91, 2026-06-18

Designing for Trajectories : Lessons on teaching for agentic service design
Amy O’Keefe, Daniel Butt
pp: 92-93, 2026-06-18

Service Design’s Third Act : After touchpoints and organisations, what’s next?
Luis Alt
pp: 94-96, 2026-06-18

Service Design Tools for Brave Play : Using play mechanics to lead change from within
Jamie Kwan
pp: 98-102, 2026-06-18

Service Design for Good: An Impact-Oriented Framework : What service design can learn from NGO practices
Yanna Vogiazou
pp: 103-105, 2026-06-18

Back issues

Volume 17

Touchpoint 17(1)

Volume 16

Touchpoint 16(1) Touchpoint 16(2) Touchpoint 16(3)

Volume 15

Touchpoint 15(1) Touchpoint 15(2) Touchpoint 15(3)

Volume 14

Touchpoint 14(1) Touchpoint 14(2) Touchpoint 14(3)

Volume 13

Touchpoint 13(1) Touchpoint 13(2) Touchpoint 13(3)

Volume 12

Touchpoint 12(1) Touchpoint 12(2) Touchpoint 12(3)

Volume 11

Touchpoint 11(1) Touchpoint 11(2) Touchpoint 11(3)

Volume 10

Touchpoint 10(1) Touchpoint 10(2) Touchpoint 10(3)

Volume 9

Touchpoint 9(1) Touchpoint 9(2) Touchpoint 9(3)

Volume 8

Touchpoint 8(1) Touchpoint 8(2) Touchpoint 8(3)

Volume 7

Touchpoint 7(1) Touchpoint 7(2) Touchpoint 7(3)

Volume 6

Touchpoint 6(1) Touchpoint 6(2) Touchpoint 6(3)

Volume 5

Touchpoint 5(1) Touchpoint 5(2) Touchpoint 5(3)

Volume 4

Touchpoint 4(1) Touchpoint 4(2) Touchpoint 4(3)

Volume 3

Touchpoint 3(1) Touchpoint 3(2) Touchpoint 3(3)

Volume 2

Touchpoint 2(1) Touchpoint 2(2) Touchpoint 2(3)

Volume 1

Touchpoint 1(1) Touchpoint 1(2) Touchpoint 1(3)