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Here's your latest newsletter on Platforms – brought to you by me and the awesome Platform Design Toolkit Team.

Reflecting: three different layers of Platform Design

In this week's post, we present a reflection on the three "social" layers that one needs to care about when designing platform strategies. We think that a platform shaper needs to always think about the individual, the relationship and... the ecosystem.

At the individual layer, one needs to design keeping in mind:

solving a problem in easier, cheaper, faster ways (providing convenience);
treating everyone as a producer (empowering potential).

At the relational layer, the aspects that count the most are:

reducing conflict of interest and fear, increase trust, mostly trough intermediation;
increasing the value of the interaction (non-zero sum) by generating perfect matches;

At the ecosystemic layer, one needs to design keeping in mind:

increasing the value of ecosystem’s commons, available to all participants;
reduce liabilities of the whole system and reduce risk of systemic collapse.

Read this week's post:

The 3 Social Layers of Platform Design
The Individual, the Relational, the Ecosystemic

...and in case you lost it last week, find a moment to look into our latest key release:

The 12 Platform of Exploration in Platform Design

Touchpoint April 2018 Issue: Service Design at Scale

Platform Design Toolkit has been featured on Touchpoint! The periodic review from Service Design Network, the international community of Service Design, hosts an interview with Simone, on the heritage and connection between Service Design and Platform Design.

Read the full interview here or buy the paper magazine here.

Brussels Masterclass: 4 Early Birds still on sale plus a further -15% Discount on all other tickets!

Click on this link (or the picture) to access the PDT Community special discount code

Our list of Must-Reads on Platforms, curated For You

The Brooklyn Taxonomy draft for tokens ↴

The the Brooklyn project wants to define a common taxonomy for “crypto” assets. The aim is to match tokens within global regulatory frameworks for securities and financial instruments. Food for thought!

Getting ready while designing your Platform↴

Matt Ward presents a 4 parts journey to plan the “correct” path and 7 platform problems to consider when your product is the platform. Interesting concepts to inspire our work on PDT.

Defensibility beyond Network Effects ↴

A good reality check on network and non-network effect. Nfx are key: we are looking for them 'cause they cause exponential value growth but that's not the only way to defense your business: here's a list of other strong moats!

Invest on Sharetribe, the MVPlatform DIY solution ↴

Sharetribe helps entrepreneurs and organizations create their own sharing economy marketplaces quickly and evolutively. Now they are in crowdfunding and most amazingly they are proposing a steward-ownership model, to commit that the value they create is dedicated to a purpose!

What is value and who creates it? ↴

The economist Mariana Mazzucato has tried to answer it in her new book The Value of Everything, listen to the interview. She claims that right now many of the world’s most successful companies don’t actually create anything but merely “extract value”: a parasitic system we need to refocus!

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