David FriedlandAre you wanting to learn more about service design ? Well you’ve come to the right place. This is a curated list of the best service design podcasts of 2021.
We have selected these podcasts for a variety of reasons, but they are all well worth a listen. We tried to select a variety of podcasts across the spectrum from hosts with a wide breadth of experience.
We are always keen to hear your feedback, if we have missed a podcast, tweet us @MagazineWelp and we will check it out!
Best Service Design Podcasts 2021
With thanks to ListenNotes, Crunchbase, SemRush and Ahrefs for providing the data to create and rank these podcasts.
The Boagworld UX Show
- Publisher: Paul Boag
- Total Episodes: 544
Boagworld is a podcast about digital strategy, service design and user experience. It offers practical advice, news, tools, review and interviews with leading figures in the web design community. Covering everything from usability and design to marketing and strategy, this show has something for everything. This award-winning podcast is the longest running web design podcast with over 380 episodes.
Pool Chasers Podcast
- Publisher: Greg & Tyler: Swimming Pool Industry Podcaster
- Total Episodes: 158
Whether you own a business or whether you service, repair, build, design, or market pools, we want to build a podcast tailored to fit our needs. We will be interviewing business owners, pool service and repair companies, builders, manufactures, marketing and social media experts, as well as many others that can help progress, inspire and entertain us all.
Killer Innovations with Phil McKinney – A Show About Ideas Creativity And Innovation
- Publisher: Phil McKinney
- Total Episodes: 402
An award winning podcast and nationally syndicated radio show that looks at the innovations that are changing our lives and how their innovators used creativity and design to take their raw idea and create a game-changing product or service.
Service Design Show
- Publisher: Service Design Show
- Total Episodes: 140
A show where we go beyond the basic service design tools & methods to learn what it truly takes to make great services a reality.
Service Design Podcast
- Publisher: Service Design Podcast
- Total Episodes: 44
In this podcast David Morgan and Stina Vanhoof, Service Designers at Knight Moves Belgium have conversation about Service Design with practitioners from around the world. This podcast is produced in collaboration with the Service Design Network.
Digital Insights
- Publisher: Paul Boag
- Total Episodes: 676
Need some inspiration for your digital strategy or website, but don’t have time for reading endless posts? Struggling to keep up with the latest innovations in web design, user experience and service design? These bite-sized digital insights from UX designer and consultant Paul Boag will keep you up-to-date. Typically only a few minutes long they are ideal listening when on the move.
The Huddle Show
- Publisher: Meaningful Strategic Design – Huddle
- Total Episodes: 61
This is Huddle’s podcast about design, people, service design, strategic design, meaningful work, humanity and just a whole bunch of stuff we find interesting. Huddle is a strategic design firm founded in 2009 to do meaningful work and positively affect humanity.
Design Everywhere
- Publisher: Evergreen Podcasts
- Total Episodes: 21
Design Everywhere is a podcast by designers for designers. Host, Jonathan Morgan, is a human-centered designer who explores the shifting landscape of product and service design in the face of emerging technology. Each week is an exploration into the past, present, and future of design through the stories of the people that are shaping it. Jonathan guides listeners through discussions with leading voices in the design industry. Together, they canvas the world of design uncovering examples of the good, the bad and the ultimate impact of design… everywhere! *This podcast is a production of the Ohio Film Tax Credit.
APIs You Won’t Hate
- Publisher: APIs You Won’t Hate
- Total Episodes: 13
A no-nonsense podcast about API design & development, new features in the world of HTTP, service-orientated architecture, microservices, and probably bikes.
Builder vs. Buyer
- Publisher: Adam Steiner
- Total Episodes: 54
The home building process is often an adversarial one. Buyers don’t trust their builders and builders are annoyed by their buyers. I’m here to help mediate. Advice and tips for builders to get better happier clients, and advice to buyers to be better informed during their build. This podcast is brought to you by Adam Steiner, the owner of Birnam Design Co. a full service residential home design firm. Get in touch – birnamdesign.com/resources Facebook: @birnamdesignco Instagram: @birnamdesignco LinkedIn: Adam Steiner
The Yondr Podcast | Hyperscale data centers
- Publisher: Yondr
- Total Episodes: 11
Yondr is a developer, owner operator and service provider of hyperscale data centers. Our mission is to meet growing businesses’ data center capacity and technical real estate needs faster, more elegantly and with better performance outcomes than anyone else. As an organisation, we self-fund, design, deliver and operate hyperscale data center facilities globally.
Travel Agent Achievers – To Educate, Encourage and Empower Travel Professionals
- Publisher: Roslyn Ranse
- Total Episodes: 48
Travel Agent Achievers is an educational podcast by Australian travel professional, Roslyn Ranse. Educating, empowering and encouraging travel agents. Whether you are working in a shop front or as mobile travel agent, we are here to help you grow your business and stay ahead of the competition. We will explore strategies in all facets of business. Sales, marketing, customer service, finance, and project management. Success belongs to the eager and the equipped. The time is now. Design a travel business where you can focus on what you love doing. Creating memorable travel experiences for your clients. Here you’ll learn new strategies on the ‘business’ side of things.
User Defenders – UX Design & Personal Growth
- Publisher: Jason Ogle
- Total Episodes: 105
Being a great UX designer begins and ends with being a great human. Ever since I can remember, I’ve been fascinated by superheroes. Early on, it was their amazing superpowers that drew me in. As I grew older, it was the realization of a very tangible connection between us and them. Superheroes typically possess a strong moral code, including a willingness to risk one’s own safety in the service of good without expectation of reward. Even though they still fall and fail often, they always get back up, learn, and continue to make things better. Sound a little like UX? I also discovered this little-known, world-changing link between UX Design and personal growth after beginning my own personal growth journey in 2015 (just before starting this podcast & community) that quite literally changed my life. The reality is, we cannot pour an empty cup into another. There’s a reason why on every flight we’re told to put our oxygen mask on first…we can’t help others unless we first help ourselves. We can’t lead others where we are not. What the world needs now is not just love, but especially more empathy. We live in some of the most divided times in human history. It’s true empathy isn’t everything, but please don’t design or ship a product or experience meant for other human beings without it! This UX podcast will help you become the best, most powerful UX designer (and human) you can be. As you listen to the most inspiring and influential UX superheroes in the world tell impactful stories, reveal their design superpowers/kryptonite and offer game-changing advice–you’ll be moved and inspired to unleash your growth mindset, grow in your empathy for others, all while being enlightened, informed and even entertained as you learn about the most important issues facing our UX community today. Yes, you’ll discover how-to’s, but much more importantly you’ll discover why-to’s Every episode is sure to inspire and equip you on how to better fight for your users and business, and dare I say change the world (even if only for one human at a time) in a much deeper and more tangible way than you ever thought possible.
From Better Half to Boss with Tavia Redburn
- Publisher: Tavia Redburn
- Total Episodes: 46
“How do I market my business? How do I find ideal clients in my photography, design or service business? Is it possible to make a full time income with my passion?” The Better Half to Boss Podcast answers those questions and more! Tavia Redburn inspires the ambitious mom entrepreneur with stories, proven marketing strategies and productivity tips to start, grow and go full time in her business. Tavia shares how she became the primary income earner in her household with her photography business, all while homeschooling her 3 kids & how she retired her husband from his 9-5! Do you have a spouse stuck in a job they hate because they’re responsible to pay the bills? Are you ready to finally go full time, even hit 6 figures and beyond, with your passion to free your spouse from their 9-5? If you have a passion, there is a reason! It’s because you were made to be follow that passion! Go From Better Half to Boss!
The Spot Podcast: For Sales, Marketing, & Service Professionals
- Publisher: Sprocket Talk
- Total Episodes: 27
Are you a sales, marketing, or service professional looking for strategic and tactical advice? Would you love to have some fun along the way? Then The Spot is bound to be your favorite weekly podcast. Each week we tackle sales, marketing, service, and design & development conversations that help you grow better. Our hosts, Juli Durante, Doug Davidoff, Max Cohen, and George B, Thomas bring you the latest HubSpot updates, wishlist items, and so much more. So, sit back, relax, and get that not pad ready as you listen to The Spot podcast.
Laundry Money
- Publisher: Lakeside Laundry Equipment
- Total Episodes: 7
Looking for a business investment that’s easy to start, flexible, and cash-generating? Opening a laundromat is for you. Hear the ins and outs of every step of the design, construction, and operation of your laundry business. Presented by and starring Howard Shear and Rex Anderson from Lakeside Laundry Equipment – your full-service partner, who take the stress and uncertainty out of your laundromat investment. Hosted by Max Branstetter, Host of the Wild Business Growth Podcast and Podcast Producer at Hippo Direct. Theme Song: Rock Your Life – Abydos Music – provided by Jamendo
Come Fly With Me
- Publisher: Jennifer Jacob Perez
- Total Episodes: 31
Jennifer is the proud founder of Explorateur Travel, a boutique travel design firm that curates custom vacation itineraries tailored to each individuals’ travel style. It all started in an olive grove in Italy, where Jennifer Jacob kicked off her career in the travel industry through a three-month stint in Europe. Since then, Jennifer has grown her company to a team of full-service travel designers that can help all of your vacation dreams come true. Through interviews with travel pros and locals around the world, Jennifer helps listeners find inspiration, insight, and insider tips on all things travel. Each Wednesday a new interview is released where Jennifer chats up specialists on their specific destination or topic. On Fridays, “Fast Five” episodes give listeners easy tips that they can apply when planning their travels.
Introvertpreneur
- Publisher: Tara Reid
- Total Episodes: 12
The beauty of starting your own business is that you can build it on your terms around a lifestyle that you design. But trying to build a business with strategies made for extroverts is a recipe for burnout. This is the podcast built for service providers who are introverts and struggle with online marketing, mindset issues, and dealing with clients. I’ve been an online entrepreneur since 2007 and love helping introverts discover stress-free ways to build a successful business. Each weekly episode will be full of actionable advice for using marketing strategies that are effective-like Pinterest, and email marketing, as well as creative ways to engage on Instagram and Facebook. These strategies will allow you to connect with clients and never make you wonder if you should just return to your old 9-5. Ready to discover your introvert superpowers?
Communicate Church: A Fishhook Podcast
- Publisher: Fishhook
- Total Episodes: 90
A weekly podcast helping churches think strategically about communications, social media, branding, design, websites, and more. Produced by Fishhook, a full-service church communications agency based in Indianapolis, working with churches and Christ-centered non-profits around the country.
Reimagining Justice
- Publisher: Andrea Perry-Petersen – Innovator and Lawyer
- Total Episodes: 58
Welcome to Reimagining Justice – a global podcast for the change makers in law and the first Australian-based podcast shining a light on issues at the intersection of law, social justice and innovation. Join Andrea Perry-Petersen, an Australian lawyer and social justice advocate, as she interviews guests from around the world who have discovered and implemented innovative ways to update the legal profession while improving people’s experience of the law. Andrea brings a unique perspective on stories which will inspire you to take positive action in the delivery of legal services for the benefit of lawyers, clients and society. The world is changing, and the legal profession must keep up. Legal systems around the world are not meeting people’s legal needs – there is a global access to justice crisis. What are the solutions and where can they be found? Whether you are a legal business owner or legalpreneur wanting to expand your market, run a purpose driven business or improve your service delivery model; a legal professional or law student curious about a career in social justice or legal tech (or both!); interested in systems design or proven ways to make positive social change, or simply looking to be inspired, then this is the podcast for you!
