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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
Process Mapping method illustration showing its working structure
Operations
Process Mapping
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.With a confusing workflow that has many handoffs, the method makes the actual process visible. It shows where work is passed on, delayed, or duplicated, so improvement targets the right spots.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.
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Timedifferent
1-3 h1-3 h0.5-2 Tage
Participantsdifferent
3-103-106-12
Formatsame
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Customer Journey Canvas, Pain Points, Experience OpportunitiesProcess Map, Handoff List, Improvement BacklogService Blueprint, Fail Points, Ownership Map
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JourneyCustomerService designCanvas
ProcessOperationsImprovement
Service designOperationsJourneyBlueprint
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Paper illustration of a review with planned work, actual event sequence, comparison, and assigned improvement actions.
Operations
After-Action Review
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 Theory of Constraints.
Operations
Theory of Constraints