Future-State Blueprinting

Learn how to blueprint your desired future state experience and create an actionable plan to implement and deliver. All new course content, start building your future-state customer experiences today!

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The sequel to our hit course on current state blueprinting
Go at your own pace online learning
Complete Template and Resource Material
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time investment
4+ hours for video, 1-3 hours reading, with complete Follow-Along videos to use on your project
final outcome
Create a future state blueprint and an actionable implementation plan to turn your vision into reality.
Skill Level
Beginner to intermediate
Prerequisites
None!*
*While this is a sequel to "Intro to Practical Service Blueprinting," you do not need to take the other course before taking this one.

Map your vision into reality. Turn your design into an actionable implementation plan. Learn how to facilitate a future state blueprinting process!

You will learn what it takes to organize and run a future state blueprinting process, facilitate a blueprinting session virtually, synthesize the output and generate actionable work for your organization to implement the new design, and grow your skills as a trained blueprinting facilitator!

Watch preview modules: Module 1.1, Module 2.2!

What this course covers:

  • Learn what a future-state experience delivery blueprint is, and what it’s good for!
  • Plan out your future state blueprinting project
  • Learn how to facilitate a future state blueprinting session
  • Learn each step of the blueprinting process
  • Understand what to do with the output of your blueprint
  • Know how to turn your high level future state vision into a concrete design that you can implement with your organization
  • Learn how to take a blueprint map and turn it into an implementation plan to deliver the new experience
  • Virtual and remote facilitation techniques for blueprinting

The class is packed with content! Each lecture has a full HD video segment, links and resources, and worksheets and templates.

Apply this course directly to your work with follow alongs that walk you through each step of the process with real examples. This not your typical online course. You will walk away with a real work product that your boss and team will love.

Course outline

Module 1: Intro to future state blueprinting
  • Welcome to the course!
  • Follow along: Get set up in Mural
  • What is a future state blueprint?
  • Why and when to make a future state blueprint?
  • What do you blueprint?
  • Follow along: Decide what to blueprint and capture current state
  • The future state blueprinting process
  • Review and resources
Module 2: What to blueprint
  • Identifying the scenarios to blueprint
  • Follow along: Identifying scenarios to blueprint
  • Breaking down your scenario
  • Follow along: Break down your scenario
  • Review and resources
Module 3: The future state blueprint format
  • The format of a future state blueprint
  • Follow along: Explore a future state blueprint
  • Review and resources
Module 4: Plan your blueprinting session
  • Who and what to bring to your blueprinting session
  • Follow along: Enlist your colleagues
  • Logistics of a blueprinting session
  • Follow along: Plan your blueprinting session
  • Review and resources
Module 5: Prepare for blueprinting
  • Prep your blueprint
  • Follow along: Set up your blueprint
  • Defining the steps of your blueprint
  • Follow along: Draft the steps of your blueprint
  • Review and resources
Module 6: Facilitate blueprinting
  • Facilitating your blueprinting session
  • Follow along: Facilitating blueprinting with your team
  • Additional strategies for a successful session
  • Review and resources
Module 7: From workshop to work
  • Turning your blueprinting into an action plan
  • Follow along: Create your action plan
  • Moving the work forward
  • Review and resources
Module 8: Summary and going further
  • End of course summary and going further
  • All resources in one single place

What our students say

It helped me unpack and showcase an existing process where the focus on onboarding didn’t allow people to visualise the troubles of those who  were kicked out of the relationship due to long periods of latency. We helped the business side to create a new process to get such users back in, instead of being kicked out and being treated as new!
Amit V.
Principal Manager, Business Transformation - Ministry of Manpower, Singapore
I’ve used blueprints as described by Practical Service Design for the past several months. Their system’s practicality and simplicity cuts through the noise and gets to the desired outcome: A clear understanding of the end-to-end experience.
Product Designer
Streaming Television and Movie Company
It provided me with a framework which I could use to engage my colleagues and add the right amount of friction to each step by forcing us to consider all the requirements to deliver it.
Peter Lumley
Co-Founder, Service Designer - Beyondbmi
It helped me identify improvements for onboarding new hires. Ultimately, it guided alignment within the department, gap for improved trainings, and what new resources were missing for new hires.
Service Design Lead
Travel Rewards Provider
I have applied this with an auto manufacturer here in Pakistan. The client is a JV with Changan Auto, largest chinese auto maker by volume. The customer journey expanded to 57 journey steps with extensive pre work followed by a 3 day workshop. The plan and ideation coming out of the whole effort were phenomenal and appreciated and owned by the CEO.
Shafaat Khan
Principal Consultant- AliKhan Consultants
The practical service blueprint created entire new opportunities at my company, and in my career. I would not be where I am professionally without the models, methods, and practices that Practical by Design taught me. The course here has returned more on the small investment than I ever imagined.
Principal Service Designer
Fintech Company

Students of the Practical Way

Our methods, training, and ethos span all industries, countries, and experience levels. With a focus on "practical practice," we have helped students in organizations across every sector, niche, and continent!

From tech to healthcare, insurance to banking, government to nonprofit, learners just like you (and us) have helped make their organization's customer experiences better!

Sign up to get early access to the course and join these brands in applying your own Practical Practice to the real world problems you and your customers face today!

Praise for Practical Experience Blueprinting

Blueprinting helped me unpack and showcase an existing process and allow people to visualize the troubles of our users. It helped the business side create a new process.

—Principal Manager, Business Transformation, Government

Practical Blueprinting gave me the right language to get the buy-in from leadership and stakeholders. The template was easy and allowed us to externalize things that were boxed up institutional knowledge and collectively raise the business acumen for everyone. That was priceless. The blueprint became a conversation piece driving healthy conversations and conflicts that elevated the quality of collaboration.  

—Innovation Strategist, Consulting 

It’s easy to talk about customer journeys. It is difficult to map them. But using Practical Blueprinting makes it easier.

—Chief Service Officer, Information Technology Consulting

We transformed our entire global talent-acquisition organization strategy using service design that started with a blueprinting session!

—UX Researcher, Technology and Manufacturing 

Blueprinting has helped us create rituals to eliminate silos and guarantee that our efforts are client-centered.

—Head of Design, Corp. Development and Digital Transformation

Blueprinting helped me unpack and showcase an existing process and allow people to visualize the troubles of our users. It helped the business side create a new process.

—Principal Manager, Business Transformation, Government

Practical Blueprinting gave me the right language to get the buy-in from leadership and stakeholders. The template was easy and allowed us to externalize things that were boxed up institutional knowledge and collectively raise the business acumen for everyone. That was priceless. The blueprint became a conversation piece driving healthy conversations and conflicts that elevated the quality of collaboration.  

—Innovation Strategist, Consulting 

It’s easy to talk about customer journeys. It is difficult to map them. But using Practical Blueprinting makes it easier.

—Chief Service Officer, Information Technology Consulting

We transformed our entire global talent-acquisition organization strategy using service design that started with a blueprinting session!

—UX Researcher, Technology and Manufacturing 

Blueprinting has helped us create rituals to eliminate silos and guarantee that our efforts are client-centered.

—Head of Design, Corp. Development and Digital Transformation

Loved it!!  I thought it was the most practical course I’ve taken.  I liked how you walked through the blueprinting process step by step.  I feel like I can run a blueprinting process next week!

—Course Taker

The tone, style, and content in the course was really engaging. The process is a big improvement on how we were doing things, particularly because you took it all the way through making the results actionable. Thanks for that!

—Course Taker

The Practical Blueprint helped me enormously to design better interactions with clients of our commercial programs. Thanks to it, we improve satisfaction by more than 150%.

—Head of Sales Excellence, Global Marketing Firm

Practical Blueprinting provided me with a framework which I could use to engage my colleagues and add the right amount of friction to each step by forcing us to consider all the requirements to deliver it.

—Co-Founder & Service Designer, Healthcare Services 

Ultimately, blueprinting guided alignment within the department and what new resources were missing for new hires during onboarding.

—Service Designer, Travel Rewards company

It brought teams together, broke down silos, and brought out empathy. It made people realize that there were many things that they did not know, and gave a focus on what to act on.

—Service Designer & Research Manager, Global B2B

Amazing, simply amazing! From just a short course I was able to deep dive into processes within my organization and fully understand the problems throughout the journey, identifying tactical and strategic changes for improvement.

—Digital Transformation Manager, Gov. Services

I am new to service design, and the course was very fluid and simple to understand. I was able to apply the method with an auto manufacturer in a 3-day workshop. The plan and ideation that came out of the effort were phenomenal and appreciated and owned by the CEO.

—Principal Consultant, Consulting 

As a lawyer, blueprinting helps me provide better services to my clients, and helps me think about how I create my own services in a frictionless manner.

—Partner, Law Firm

I loved everything about the Practical Blueprinting course. It was well designed, and takes the method of the blueprint and strips away all the formalities to identify issues fast. The heat map effect allows for quick identification of what needs the most attention.

—Event Designer, Self Employed

I really enjoyed this course. It’s not very often that you can get this in-depth look at how to use a methodology and to see it in action.

—Course Taker

Each section was easy and quick to digest, and I appreciate all the tools that you also include in the process of learning!

—Course Taker

This is a super accessible course. You did a great job of explaining simple ways to address complex problems. And using legos for the mock sessions is genius. All around, very fun and educational!

—Course Taker