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Empathy Mapping
UX Research
Empathy Mapping
A paper-based illustration representing Customer Journey Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
Customer Journey Canvas
A paper-based illustration representing Service Blueprint with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
Service Blueprinting
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.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 a service experience is spread across several touchpoints, it brings frontstage and backstage together. It shows where user contact and internal responsibility must fit.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
30–60 min1-3 h0.5-2 Tage
Participantsdifferent
4-83-106-12
Formatsame
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Empathy Map, Assumptions List, Research GapsCustomer Journey Canvas, Pain Points, Experience OpportunitiesService Blueprint, Fail Points, Ownership Map
Tagsno overlap
SynthesisQualitativeWorkshop
JourneyCustomerService designCanvas
Service designOperationsJourneyBlueprint
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Affinity Diagramming
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Affinity Diagramming
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
Software Architecture Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Software Architecture Canvas