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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
Empathy Mapping
UX Research
Empathy Mapping
Paper illustration of two user profile cards with a goal, behavior evidence, and an open research question.
UX Research
Personas
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 a lot is assumed about a target group but little is seen jointly, empathy mapping makes knowledge and gaps directly comparable. The picture also shows which assumptions hold up and where evidence is missing.When target groups stay too vague and teams talk about the same people differently, personas create a shared, solid picture of usage. Condensed profiles make needs, contexts, and differences tangible enough for decisions.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 h30–60 min1-3 Tage
Participantsdifferent
3-104-8Internes Team
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Customer Journey Canvas, Pain Points, Experience OpportunitiesEmpathy Map, Assumptions List, Research GapsPersona Profiles, Needs Summary, Scenario Notes
Tagsno overlap
JourneyCustomerService designCanvas
SynthesisQualitativeWorkshop
ResearchCustomerSynthesis
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Paper illustration of two people facing each other, speech bubbles and an open interview notebook.
UX Research
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Affinity Diagramming
UX Research
Affinity Diagramming
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
A paper-based illustration representing Service Blueprint with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
Service Blueprinting