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Criterion
Paper illustration for ALPEN Method
Operations
ALPEN Method
A paper-based illustration representing Service Blueprint with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
Service Blueprinting
A paper-based illustration representing Event Modeling with its core stages and visible working result.
Knowledge Modeling
Event Modeling
Purposedifferent
With an overloaded day full of too many tasks, a realistic picture of the day emerges. The method connects estimating, deciding, and buffer thinking so planning fits available energy and time.When a service experience is spread across several touchpoints, it brings frontstage and backstage together. It shows where user contact and internal responsibility must fit.Event Modeling connects business workflows with commands, events, and views into one coherent mental model. It helps design behavior, UI, and technical slices from the same underlying logic.
Complexitydifferent
LowHighMedium
Timedifferent
10-20 min daily0.5-2 Tage2-6 h
Participantsdifferent
16-122-8
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Daily Plan, Time Estimates, Review NotesService Blueprint, Fail Points, Ownership MapEvent Model, UI Flow, Commands, Read Models
Tagsno overlap
PlanningTime managementProductivityOperations
Service designOperationsJourneyBlueprint
EventsBlueprintDomain-Driven DesignBehavior
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A paper-based illustration representing Customer Journey Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
Customer Journey Canvas
Paper illustration of a journey map with four connected phases, several experience lanes and a point marked for closer investigation.
UX Research
Customer Journey Mapping
EventStorming on a long working surface: colored event cards form a business flow, friction points are marked, and a boundary separates different areas of responsibility.
Domain Modeling
EventStorming
Paper notes move from an inbox to action, project and calendar collections.
Operations
Getting Things Done