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Criterion
A paper-based illustration representing Customer Journey Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
Customer Journey Canvas
Affinity Diagramming
UX Research
Affinity Diagramming
Paper illustration of two people facing each other, speech bubbles and an open interview notebook.
UX Research
User Interviews
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.When research notes, feedback, or observations sit unconnected side by side, affinity diagramming sorts the raw material into solid themes. Many individual points turn into patterns that make decisions and opportunities clearer.When teams derive needs only from assumptions and real motives are missing, user interviews give direct access to behavior and meaning. Conversations from the target group's everyday life make patterns, tensions, and open questions solidly visible.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowLow
Timedifferent
1-3 h45–90 min30–60 min per interview
Participantsdifferent
3-103-101 participant per interview
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Customer Journey Canvas, Pain Points, Experience OpportunitiesTheme clusters, Insight statements, Opportunity areasInterview Notes, Themes, Insight Summary
Tagsno overlap
JourneyCustomerService designCanvas
SynthesisQualitativeRoot cause
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
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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
Empathy Mapping
UX Research
Empathy Mapping
Paper illustration of Lean UX Canvas with its method-specific working model.
UX Design
Lean UX Canvas