Creating happiness

The Big Picture is a service design consultancy. We create end-to-end services that will make both your customers and employees happy. Because we all wanna have a premium experience, whether we deliver or receive a service!

Simple diagram illustrating the customer journey

What exactly do we do?
The Big Picture is a service design consultancy that helps organisations understand the end-customers’ real needs and motivations, in order to create more complete services, brands and experiences.

 

What does it mean in practice?
We study the end-user, visualize the entire experience flow and co-create a concept to solve clear problems and fullfil underlying end-user needs.

Choreographing experiences through behavioural research, workshops and iterative rapid prototyping.

How do we do it?

We use a whole variety of service design tools, of which the main ones are workshops, observation, iterative rapid prototyping and a ‘magic wand’. End-customers and key stakeholders are always involved in the process, because they are the real experts. We just help them extract, analyse and visualise the big picture.

 

Clients?
Our clients are from all types of industries, e.g. architecture, clothing company, restaurant, education, software company and online service. Their sizes vary from multinationals to smaller start-ups.

What we offer?
Our services are all about the big picture and are focused the following.

  • Service Design
  • Experience Strategy
  • Design Research
  • Concept Design
  • User Experience Design

 

When do you need the big picture?
Applications of our services are service & product design, strategic management, social design, graphic design, interaction design, operations management and design ethnography. To see more detailed applications, check out our portfolio.

The Big Picture is a service design consultancy that helps organisations understand the end-customers’ real needs and motivations, in order to create more complete services, brands and experiences.

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What does it mean in practice?
We study the end-user, visualize the entire experience flow and co-create a concept to solve clear problems and fullfil underlying end-user needs.

Portfolio

We work on a lot of different projects ranging from digital experience, event & exhibition design, experience strategy, branding, social innovation, all the way to education. Here are 4 cases to give you a glimpse of what we do. You can also catch glimpses of our recent projects in our project news.

News overview

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08.04.2013 Inspiration

Service Design in 5 words

Service design can be a bit tricky to understand. Those familiar with service design literature must know Marc Stickdorn’s This is service design thinking. I like how Stickdorn sums it up in 5 principles, especially the last one. Read More…

13.03.2013 Inspiration

Helsinki Service Jam – 48 hours to change the world

A week ago I participated in the Helsinki Service Jam, the local edition of the Global Service Jam.

What is a service jam?
In a service jam, people come together to develop and prototype new services around a common theme in 48 hours. This year’s theme was “grow^”. Read More…

23.07.2012 Inspiration

Dockify: a new way to organize your iPhone apps

After the iPhone entered my life, I’ve had a new closet to keep tidy. My phone. To give you an idea of how many pairs of apps I have in my iPhone, I’ll share some stats. Read More…

About

The Big Picture is Chris (a.k.a. Christoffer Langenskiƶld) and a collaborative network of exceptional experts. Collaboration is our DNA, so if you believe in that being customer conscious will bring the world forward and are interested to collaborate, get in touch.

  • chris
    Chris Service Designer,
    CEO
    Chris Service Designer,
    CEO

    “You gotta see the user!”
     
    Chris focuses on bringing real insight, so that companies, designers and politicians can base their decisions on real knowledge. Read more on Linkedin.

  • Stefanie
    Stefanie Service Designer
    Stefanie Service Designer

    “Everything is a service!”
     
    Stefanie focuses on understanding users’ and other stakeholders’ needs and motivation to design better services, whether it’s traditional or digital services or rethinking traditional product business as service.

  • johannes
    Johannes Collaborating
    Creative
    Johannes Collaborating
    Creative

    “Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.” -Woody Allen
     
    Johannes is one of the co-founders of the multi award-winning creative agency TSTO.

  • mika
    Mika Collaborating
    Architect
    Mika Collaborating
    Architect

    Mika coordinated the modeling of the entire Swedish theater in Helsinki. From inside out.

  • Jono headshot for Chris
    Jonathan Collaborating
    Director / Cinematographer
    Jonathan Collaborating
    Director / Cinematographer

    I capture real stories and edit them to create compelling emotional arguments…. amongst other things.

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    You?
    You?

     

    Collaborations are like relationships, some work, some don’t. Get it touch and let’s give a shot!

contact

The Big Picture
Christoffer Langenskiƶld

chris@thebigpicture.fi
+358 40 730 7558

Telakkakatu 8, Building 11 (3rd floor)
00150 Helsinki, Finland


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