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Empathy Mapping
UX Research
Empathy Mapping
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
Paper illustration for Root Cause Tree Analysis
Operations
Root Cause Tree Analysis
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 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.For a problem with several suspected causes, the method builds a causal structure instead of a mere list. It makes visible how causes connect and where the strongest points of leverage lie.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
30–60 min2-8 h1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
4-85-122-8
Formatsame
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Empathy Map, Assumptions List, Research GapsEvent Timeline, Ubiquitous Language, Boundaries, Open QuestionsCause Tree, Evidence Notes, Countermeasures
Tagsno overlap
SynthesisQualitativeWorkshop
Domain-Driven DesignEventsDiscoveryWorkshop
Root causeTreeIncidentQuality
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Affinity Diagramming
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Paper illustration for Root Cause Analysis.
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