What are the different profiles of people creating a service design library? So with anything, once you want to create a service design library, it all depends. There are different ways to do it, and the ways of doing it depend on how you tick as a person. What are your strengths and your weaknesses? I look back at the different ways I've done it in the past and try to formulate different personality traits and different ways you can, build your own principal library.

So there is one way, which I call the small drops. And here, the idea is work on it a little bit, five minutes every day. It's like a, like brushing your teeth. You just do it every day, a little bit. It's not a lot of work, but in the end, it pays off. That's how I wrote the second book in the Service Design Principles series.

I just worked on it every day a little bit while the baby napped. And with that, I could then write a book in a year. Another way to do it is the Sprinter way. That's how I did it back in the days when I was younger and had more time. I didn't like the idea of working on it every day. It felt ah, which means I don't really need that.

And... Then what I did is basically I took photos of interesting things during the year and once a year I basically just sat down for one or two weeks of holidays and wrote like crazy, you know I just did that 10 hours per day like crazy and in the end I had a service design library so that's another way to do it if you have the possibility to just put the week aside and work on it in a sprint mode.

Another way, and that's the one that I'm using a bit more in this third volume of the Service Design Principle series, is the co creative way, where you might say, I have a bit of an issue writing myself, so I'm going to have conversations with people, and through these conversations, we're going to explore a situation, and then...

Try to find out together what we can learn from that situation, because conversation is something super natural, it's super easy, and you're gonna just have a conversation, and through that conversation there you will learn things. The last thing, the last way to do it is like the productive side, the productive guy.

That's someone who maybe has a bit more money. has definitely no time and just wants to, have the highest impact with the least effort. That's maybe someone who says, I have the ideas in my head, but I don't know how to write them. So what you could do then is basically record a note and say, Hey, I went through this, I took a photo of that this is what was interesting in my mind and you say it was a little, little bit of thinking, voices, we're trying to reformulate live 200 times and then you send that to a writer, a freelancer somewhere, who then takes that and formulates it in one coherent piece based on your rough mental notes.

So these are the four different ways I see you can build your own Service Design Principle Library. And I built a little kind of personality test that you could take to see which one of these personality types is more like you, and what are the tools that could help you if you have that, personality trait, and what are the mindsets that you can use to continue your exploration.

But one thing that is important to say is, you can obviously mix the styles, which means that now, for example I'm working every day a little bit on it. On my service design principles library, but from time to time, I also use a kind of co creative way to do it. So it's not a either or, but you can also pick a few elements of different styles.