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Paper illustration for Current Reality Tree
Systems Thinking
Current Reality Tree
Surveys method illustration showing its working structure
UX Research
Surveys
Paper illustration for Behavior Over Time Graph.
Systems Thinking
Behavior Over Time Graph
Purposedifferent
A Current Reality Tree condenses many symptoms into a few causal chains. The method makes visible which core problems drive several negative effects at once.When a topic needs to be validated broadly and many people can answer the same question, surveys gather structured feedback in a scalable form. Answers become comparable and segmentable instead of remaining merely anecdotal.A Behavior Over Time Graph shows how a metric or observation develops over time. The method makes trends, breaks, and recurring patterns visible that get lost in snapshots.
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HighMediumLow
Timedifferent
2-6 h3-14 Tage20-45 min
Participantsdifferent
3-850+1-10
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Current Reality Tree, Core Problems, Intervention IdeasSurvey Results, Charts, Segment InsightsBehavior Over Time Graph, Trend Hypotheses, Key Events
Tagsno overlap
Systems thinkingRoot causeConstraintsCausality
QuantitativeResearchValidation
Systems thinkingPatternsDynamics
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Causal Loop Diagram workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Systems Thinking
Causal Loop Diagram
Iceberg Model method illustration showing its working structure
Systems Thinking
Iceberg Model
Paper illustration of System Archetypes with its method-specific working model.
Systems Thinking
System Archetypes
Paper illustration for Theory of Constraints Thinking Process.
Systems Thinking
Theory of Constraints Thinking Process