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| Criterion |  UX Research Customer Journey Mapping |  UX Design Customer Journey Canvas |  Delivery Shape Up |  Product Discovery User Story Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a user journey falls apart across many touchpoints, customer journey mapping makes the experience visible as a coherent arc. Phases, emotions, and breaks become legible enough to prioritize critical moments deliberately. | 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. | Shape Up helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow. It makes work boundaries and decisions explicit and captures results as pitches, bet-table decisions, and hill charts. | When user goals and delivery scope could drift apart, it orders the journey from goal to slice. It makes visible where an MVP can genuinely be cut. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2-4 h | 1-3 h | 6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down | 2-4 h |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 3-10 | 2-4 pro Pitch | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Journey Map, Pain-point List, Opportunity Backlog | Customer Journey Canvas, Pain Points, Experience Opportunities | Pitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomes | Story Map, Release Slices, Backlog Candidates |
Tagsno overlap | JourneyServiceService design | JourneyCustomerService designCanvas | PlanningDeliveryAutonomy | BacklogJourneyPlanningMVP |