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Criterion
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
Paper notes move from an inbox to action, project and calendar collections.
Operations
Getting Things Done
Paper illustration for Concierge MVP
Product Discovery
Concierge MVP
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.With many open commitments and ideas in daily life, a reliable external storage system emerges. The method relieves the mind so priority and context don't have to compete in memory.When an idea can first fail or grow through genuine hands-on support, it relies on manual work instead of automation. It shows whether user value holds up even under manual execution.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
2-4 h1-2 h Setup, laufend1-4 Wochen
Participantsdifferent
4-1013-10 Kunden
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Journey Map, Pain-point List, Opportunity BacklogAction Lists, Project List, Review RoutineConcierge Learnings, Service Blueprint, MVP Risks
Tagsno overlap
JourneyServiceService design
ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution
MVPValidationServiceDiscovery
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Paper illustration of a horizontal story map with an activity backbone, task cards below it and a cross-map release line.
Product Discovery
User Story Mapping
Paper illustration for Weekly Review.
Operations
Weekly Review
Paper illustration for ALPEN Method
Operations
ALPEN Method
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)