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Empathy Mapping
UX Research
Empathy Mapping
Paper scorecard with four perspectives, connected objective cards and columns for measures, targets and initiatives.
Business Strategy
Balanced Scorecard
EventStorming on a long working surface: colored event cards form a business flow, friction points are marked, and a boundary separates different areas of responsibility.
Domain Modeling
EventStorming
Purposedifferent
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.Balanced Scorecard translates strategy into a few interconnected perspectives and metrics. It holds impact, steering, and learning together in daily work instead of narrowing strategy down to financial figures.When a domain consists of many events, rules, and states, it creates a shared modeling space for the team. It bundles language, flows, and boundaries before domain knowledge fragments into siloed views.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
30–60 minHalber Tag bis mehrere Wochen2-8 h
Participantsdifferent
4-84-125-12
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Empathy Map, Assumptions List, Research GapsBalanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative MapEvent Timeline, Ubiquitous Language, Boundaries, Open Questions
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SynthesisQualitativeWorkshop
StrategyMetricsExecution
Domain-Driven DesignEventsDiscoveryWorkshop
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Affinity Diagramming
UX Research
Affinity Diagramming
Context Map workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Domain Modeling
Context Map
Paper illustration of Counter Metrics with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
Counter Metrics
A paper-based illustration representing Event Modeling with its core stages and visible working result.
Knowledge Modeling
Event Modeling