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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
Paper illustration for Incident Timeline Analysis.
DevOps
Incident Timeline Analysis
A paper-based illustration representing Service Blueprint with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
Service Blueprinting
Paper illustration for Causal Factor Analysis.
Operations
Causal Factor Analysis
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 an incident with an unclear sequence, the method makes the timeline precisely visible. It separates perception, reaction, and delay so cause and effect become more clearly readable.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.For an event with a complicated course, the method breaks down the contributing factors along the timeline. It shows how conditions, decisions, and reactions together produce a course of events.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumHighHigh
Timedifferent
1-3 h60-180 min0.5-2 Tage2-6 h
Participantsdifferent
3-103-106-123-10
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Customer Journey Canvas, Pain Points, Experience OpportunitiesIncident Timeline, Evidence Log, Delay Analysis, Improvement ActionsService Blueprint, Fail Points, Ownership MapEvent Timeline, Causal Factor Chart, Cause List, Corrective Actions
Tagsno overlap
JourneyCustomerService designCanvas
IncidentTimelineSite Reliability Engineering
Service designOperationsJourneyBlueprint
CausalityIncidentRoot causeTimeline
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