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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 of two user profile cards with a goal, behavior evidence, and an open research question.
UX Research
Personas
Affinity Diagramming
UX Research
Affinity Diagramming
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 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.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
1-3 h1-3 Tage45–90 min
Participantsdifferent
3-10Internes Team3-10
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Customer Journey Canvas, Pain Points, Experience OpportunitiesPersona Profiles, Needs Summary, Scenario NotesTheme clusters, Insight statements, Opportunity areas
Tagsno overlap
JourneyCustomerService designCanvas
ResearchCustomerSynthesis
SynthesisQualitativeRoot cause
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Paper illustration of two people facing each other, speech bubbles and an open interview notebook.
UX Research
User Interviews
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
A paper-based illustration representing Service Blueprint with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
Service Blueprinting