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A paper-based illustration representing Event Modeling with its core stages and visible working result.
Knowledge Modeling
Event Modeling
Paper illustration for Diary Study.
UX Research
Diary Study
A hypothetical failure makes concrete risks, signals, and fitting mitigations visible.
Decision Making
Pre-Mortem
Purposedifferent
Event Modeling connects business workflows with commands, events, and views into one coherent mental model. It helps design behavior, UI, and technical slices from the same underlying logic.When experiences build up over days or weeks and a single session cannot capture them, Diary Study records the course of everyday life. Recurring triggers, moods, and habits become visible this way, beyond the sharpness of memory.In early initiatives with many uncertainties, planning quickly turns too optimistic. A pre-mortem makes the expected failure visible in advance and sharpens the view of causes, gaps, and countermeasures.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
2-6 h1-4 Wochen20–45 min
Participantsdifferent
2-85-20Small cross-functional group
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Event Model, UI Flow, Commands, Read ModelsDiary Entries, Longitudinal Patterns, Experience TimelineRisk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log
Tagsno overlap
EventsBlueprintDomain-Driven DesignBehavior
UX researchTrackingBehavior
RiskDecisionFailurePlanning
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Paper illustration of an assumption matrix with prioritized test cards
Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
Constraint Analysis
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 Failure Scenario Analysis.
Engineering
Failure Scenario Analysis