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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, 17/1

Contents

Surfacing Early Readiness Gaps in AI-enabled SaaS Projects
Jia-May Wu, Hsien-Hui Tang
pp: 6-9, 2026-04-20

Bridging Service Design and Data Engineering
Davide Posillipo, Sonia Balduzzi
pp: 10-15, 2026-04-20

Making AI Authority Legible and Contestable for Public Services
Kazi Mahdi Amin
pp: 16-21, 2026-04-20

Orchestrating Co-performance in Healthcare: Evolving blueprints to manage complex ecosystems
Rafael Poiatti
pp: 22-25, 2026-04-20

AI Strategy as the Foundation of Service Design: Before you launch a service design project, have an AI strategy first
Krystyna Jarek, Małgorzata Jurkiewicz
pp: 26-32, 2026-04-20

Designing Responsibility in Human–Machine Interaction
Miriam Schmalen
pp: 34-36, 2026-04-20

From Collaboration to Co-Performance: Designing accountability in AI-enabled services
Ákos Csertán
pp: 37-39, 2026-04-20

Designing Human + AI Co-Performance in Emergency Management: From static reports to dynamic decision support
John Sexton, Savannah Redlinger, Armand Tesserot, Ramin Ostad
pp: 40-45, 2026-04-20

Service Design for AI Impact Measurement: A framework for capturing what AI really delivers in hybrid services
Roberta Tassi, Yulya Besplemennova
pp: 46-49, 2026-04-20

From Service Blueprints to Transformation Blueprints: Adding diagnostic and orchestration layers for AI integration
Sandra Griffel, Charlotte Block
pp: 50-55, 2026-04-20

Designing Transitions, Not Just Technologies: Co-designing AI triage in a hospital setting
Chris Ferguson, Matt Ratto
pp: 56-65, 2026-04-20

Designing Judgement in AI-Mediated Co-Creation: A service design view on judgement
Chunqiu Li
pp: 66-69, 2026-04-20

Prototyping Civic Futures with Legible AI: A practice-based case study from St Petersburg’s Historic Gas Plant District
Steve Diasio
pp: 70-73, 2026-04-20

Designing for Flow: Service designers at the helm of agentic AI
Shelley Evenson
pp: 74-76, 2026-04-20

The Role of AI in Participatory Workshop Design and Facilitation: Facilitatory insights across preparation, execution and follow-up
Máté Attila Barna
pp: 78-83, 2026-04-20

Co-Designing Personas with AI: Community-anchored synthesis in the age of generative models
Priscilla Chueng-Nainby, Nabilah Gelshirani, John Lee
pp: 84-87, 2026-04-20

Ghost Touchpoints and the Visible Intent Layer: Exposing invisible automation in a service blueprint
Brigitte Kovács, Daniela Otalvaro, Janelle Leung, Kristel Tan
pp: 88-95, 2026-04-20

Echoing Futures: Prototyping an AI mentor to spark civic imagination in young people
Ashwin Vasudevan, Joan Yieke, Spencer Foxworth, Yuliya Zakolyabina, Tooba Tul Muntaha
pp: 96-99, 2026-04-20

Mapping AI Use in the Employee-centric Hybrid Workplace
Kiwoong Nam, Minna Pietikäinen, Jenna Pennanen, Siiri Jalo, Tarja Kantola, Jia Wang
pp: 100-104, 2026-04-20

Back issues

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)