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S.03 Public service system in development

Uslugovod

Prepare a service order, keep track of the work and check the outcome before accepting it.

A person may know what needs to change without knowing which specialist to contact or what conditions to agree on. Uslugovod connects the task to a suitable service, a brief, proposals, risks, progress checks and acceptance criteria.

I am developing this system so the whole order can remain understandable from the initial request to the finished work. The order map brings the requirements, provider terms, changes and review points together.

  • 01
    Free access
  • 02
    From task to acceptance
  • 03
    Browser tools
  • 04
    Active development
  1. 01Task
  2. 02Service
  3. 03Brief
  4. 04Proposal
  5. 05Risk
  6. 06Review
  7. 07Acceptance
Page contents
01 · Purpose

From an intention to a service order you can check

You might want to renovate a room, find a tutor, commission a website, choose an accountant, organise a move or seek legal help. Before approaching a provider, that broad intention needs to become a clear task, a scope of work and an expected result.

Uslugovod is being developed to make this transition easier. Information pages, a service navigator, briefs, proposal checks, risk assessment, progress records and acceptance criteria form a connected way of working with an order.

Intention Order structure Verifiable result
02 · Problem to solve

What Uslugovod helps organise

  • A

    Describe the task

    A person's initial situation is translated into a specific service and a clear subject for the order.

  • B

    Specify the result

    Each service identifies its expected outcome, the necessary information, the stages of work and the materials the provider should deliver.

  • C

    Agree on working conditions

    Providers' offers are compared by scope, deadlines, responsibility, guarantees, payment terms and evidence that the work is complete.

  • D

    Define quality

    The order is reviewed and accepted against observable criteria established before work starts.

The result is a procedure the customer can understand: what to order, which conditions to agree on and how to recognise whether the work has been done.

03 · Service order route

Seven stages of working with a service

  • The starting point may be a problem to fix, a result to obtain, work that needs a specialist or two possible ways of achieving the same goal.

The order map is intended to connect these stages and preserve the history of the conversation and the work.

04 · Where it applies

Personal and business services covered by the system

  1. 01Repairs, homes and tradespeople
  2. 02Cleaning, household and practical help
  3. 03Beauty, health and personal care
  4. 04Education and tutoring
  5. 05Legal services and documents
  6. 06Accounting, taxes and business services
  7. 07Computers, IT and websites
  8. 08Marketing, advertising and sales
  9. 09Transport, delivery and logistics
  10. 10Cars, equipment and machinery
  11. 11Photography, video, events and creative work

An order has recognisable parts across different fields, but the brief, risk questions and acceptance criteria must still fit the particular service. Medical, legal and technical work may also require professional review.

05 · System structure

The working information behind a service order

  • Task
    Describes the situation the person wants to resolve.
  • Service
    Defines the professional work required to address the task.
  • Situation
    Links a real-life or business context to an appropriate service.
  • Brief
    Collects the information, requirements and constraints needed for a request.
  • Proposal
    Records the provider's scope of work, schedule, price and terms.
  • Risk
    Identifies weak or uncertain points in the proposed agreement.
  • Agreement
    Preserves a condition or change that the parties have agreed.
  • Stage
    Shows how the order moves from preparation to completion.
  • Criterion
    Defines an observable sign that the work meets a requirement.
  • Issue
    Records a discrepancy that needs to be resolved.
  • Order map
    Connects the preceding objects in a practical working record.
Task → Service → Brief → Proposal → Risk → Order → Acceptance
Situations · Agreements · Stages · Criteria · Issues
06 · Practical tools

How information becomes something useful for the next step

  • 01

    Service navigator

    Finds the relevant service category and a useful starting route.

  • 02

    Brief builder

    Prepares a structured request for a provider.

  • 03

    Proposal review

    Helps examine whether the quoted work and commercial terms are clear and complete.

  • 04

    Service risk assessment

    Identifies terms that need further clarification or written confirmation.

  • 05

    Acceptance checklist

    Turns the quality criteria into actions for reviewing the delivered work.

  • 06

    Workspace

    Connects materials from several orders, their stages, issues and statuses.

Each working tool is meant to produce a result that can inform a later stage rather than leaving the customer to start again.

07 · Design principles

Choices guiding the development of Uslugovod

  1. 01

    Start with a person's situation

    Navigation leads from a practical problem to a service and an appropriate next action.

  2. 02

    Describe what the service must deliver

    The service description explains the expected outcome, scope and form of the result.

  3. 03

    Set the checks in advance

    Quality and acceptance requirements are prepared alongside the request, rather than after the work is complete.

  4. 04

    Keep the order connected

    The brief, proposals, risks, agreements and identified issues remain related to the same order.

  5. 05

    Extend without breaking the structure

    New services, situations and tools are added through shared objects and connections.

08 · Research

Questions I examine through Uslugovod

The project is both an applied digital service and a way to study how people order personal and business services.

  1. 01What order structure works across very different personal and business services?
  2. 02How can a vague need become a useful request to a provider?
  3. 03Which inputs are needed to describe the work well?
  4. 04How can proposals from different providers be made comparable?
  5. 05What criteria help someone assess a result without specialist training?
  6. 06How can the system cover thousands of services while preserving meaningful routes and working tools?

The intended practical result is an order map whose questions and checks adapt to what the customer is actually buying.

09 · Author's role

My work on the system

I am responsible for the concept of Uslugovod, its working objects, the classification of services and situations, the user routes and the design of its browser tools.

  • Categories of services and situations
  • Models for expressing a service task
  • Briefs and review procedures
  • Criteria for assessing risk, progress and acceptance
  • The structure of the order workspace
  • Content and search architecture
  • Connections between the practical tools

This work draws on experience in digital service design, marketing, sales, logistics, working with contractors and developing practical analytical tools.

10 · Connections within IWXA

How Uslugovod relates to other work in the laboratory

These projects share a practical concern: moving from someone's situation to a clear task, an appropriate tool and a result that can be checked. Their audiences and kinds of work differ.

11 · Current status

The public system continues to develop

The project's published description includes service categories, pages about particular services, a situation navigator, brief preparation, proposal review, risk assessment, acceptance checklists and a local workspace. Their current operation must be confirmed on the external website.

  • 01

    Directory

    Expanding the number of areas, services and situations that can start a route.

  • 02

    Specialist materials

    Developing briefs, questions for providers and acceptance criteria for particular services.

  • 03

    Order workspace

    Strengthening connections between stages, materials and order statuses.

  • 04

    Data portability

    Preparing outcomes for saving, exporting and reuse by other services.

uslugovod.ru

Continue with the working system

Find the relevant service, prepare a request for the provider and bring the order's materials together in one place.