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Four paper collections for projects, responsibilities, resources and archives.
Knowledge Modeling
PARA Method
Paper illustration of a branching tree with an outcome at its root, customer opportunities, solution options and small experiment cards.
Product Discovery
Opportunity Solution Tree
A paper-based illustration representing Event Modeling with its core stages and visible working result.
Knowledge Modeling
Event Modeling
Paper illustration for Fake Door Test
Product Discovery
Fake Door Test
Purposedifferent
The PARA Method organizes knowledge into Projects, Areas, Resources, and Archives. It creates order when digital notes, files, and tasks no longer cleanly fit current work.When discovery keeps swinging between goals, ideas, and learning loops, it creates clear steering logic. It connects the desired outcome, opportunities, and experiments into a legible structure.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 demand is still unclear, it measures interest in a feature before it is built. It separates real behavior from polite agreement and deliberately keeps build effort small.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 h Setup, laufend1-2 h Setup, laufend2-6 h1-5 Tage
Participantsdifferent
12-62-8Nutzertraffic
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncAsync
Outputdifferent
PARA Structure, Project Notes, Knowledge ArchiveOpportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning LogEvent Model, UI Flow, Commands, Read ModelsClick Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision
Tagsno overlap
KnowledgeProductivityOrganization
DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity
EventsBlueprintDomain-Driven DesignBehavior
ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery
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