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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
Paper illustration of Starbursting with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Starbursting
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.Helps clarify ideas, open questions, and testable next steps in concrete terms. It opens the thinking space, collects ideas, and leads to testable options. The result is captured as a star-shaped question map, question list, and assumption list.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLow
Timedifferent
1-3 h30-60 min
Participantssame
3-103-10
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Customer Journey Canvas, Pain Points, Experience OpportunitiesStar-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption List
Tagsno overlap
JourneyCustomerService designCanvas
BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery
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A paper-based illustration representing Brainstorming with its core stages and visible working result.
Innovation
Brainstorming
Paper illustration of Design Charrette with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Design Charrette
Paper illustration of the Lotus Blossom working structure.
Innovation
Lotus Blossom
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