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Criterion
A paper-based illustration representing Service Blueprint with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
Service Blueprinting
Paper illustration of two considered options leading to a decision record with a marked status and visible consequences.
Architecture
Architecture Decision Record
Paper illustration of Request for Comments (RFC) with its method-specific working model.
Architecture
Request for Comments
A paper-based illustration representing Customer Journey Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
Customer Journey Canvas
Purposedifferent
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.An ADR permanently records an architecture decision with context, trade-offs, and consequence. It creates continuity for later changes because the decision path stays traceable.An RFC clarifies architecture context, options, and consequences. It structures technical context, alternatives, tradeoffs, open questions, and review feedback, and captures the result as an RFC document, reviewer comments, and a decision rationale.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.
Complexitydifferent
HighLowMediumMedium
Timedifferent
0.5-2 Tage15-45 min1-3 Wochen vom Draft bis zur Entscheidung1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
6-121-33-20 Reviewer3-10
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Service Blueprint, Fail Points, Ownership MapADR File, Decision Log, RationaleRFC document, Reviewer comments, Decision rationale, Follow-up ADR or ticketsCustomer Journey Canvas, Pain Points, Experience Opportunities
Tagsno overlap
Service designOperationsJourneyBlueprint
ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance
ArchitectureDecisionAsyncGovernance
JourneyCustomerService designCanvas
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