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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
A3 Problem-Solving workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Operations
A3 Problem Solving
A paper-based illustration representing Service Blueprint with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
Service Blueprinting
Purposedifferent
When a journey needs to be understood across several phases, it arranges experience, touchpoints, and opportunities into one picture. It makes gaps and friction along the user path clear.For a complex deviation with several people involved, the method bundles problem, analysis, and decision onto one page. It creates a shared working space where causes, countermeasures, and follow-up fit together.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumHigh
Timedifferent
1-3 h45-90 min0.5-2 Tage
Participantsdifferent
3-102-56-12
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Customer Journey Canvas, Pain Points, Experience OpportunitiesA3 Report, Action Plan, Root Cause AnalysisService Blueprint, Fail Points, Ownership Map
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JourneyCustomerService designCanvas
LeanProblem solvingCoachingOperations
Service designOperationsJourneyBlueprint
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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
Gemba Walk workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Operations
Gemba Walk
Paper illustration for Kaizen Event.
Operations
Kaizen Event