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Criterion
A paper-based illustration representing Event Modeling with its core stages and visible working result.
Knowledge Modeling
Event Modeling
A paper-based illustration representing Service Blueprint with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
Service Blueprinting
Paper illustration of the Lotus Blossom working structure.
Innovation
Lotus Blossom
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 a service experience is spread across several touchpoints, it brings frontstage and backstage together. It shows where user contact and internal responsibility must fit.When a central question feels too large, the method breaks it into neighboring topic fields with their own depth of ideation. It holds structure and openness at the same time, so adjacent perspectives don't get lost. This grows an idea space out of a core problem.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighLow
Timedifferent
2-6 h0.5-2 Tage45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
2-86-123-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Event Model, UI Flow, Commands, Read ModelsService Blueprint, Fail Points, Ownership MapLotus Diagram, Idea Themes, Shortlist
Tagsno overlap
EventsBlueprintDomain-Driven DesignBehavior
Service designOperationsJourneyBlueprint
BrainstormingIdeationCreativityDivergenceWorkshop
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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
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 of Rapid Ideation with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Rapid Ideation