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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 for ALPEN Method
Operations
ALPEN Method
Decision Tree method illustration showing its working structure
Decision Making
Decision Tree
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.With an overloaded day full of too many tasks, a realistic picture of the day emerges. The method connects estimating, deciding, and buffer thinking so planning fits available energy and time.For decisions with follow-on paths and dependencies, a linear comparison is often not enough. A Decision Tree shows how options branch under conditions and which consequences hang on each branch.
Complexitydifferent
HighLowMedium
Timedifferent
0.5-2 Tage10-20 min daily30-90 min
Participantsdifferent
6-1211-6
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Service Blueprint, Fail Points, Ownership MapDaily Plan, Time Estimates, Review NotesDecision Tree, Option Map, Assumption List
Tagsno overlap
Service designOperationsJourneyBlueprint
PlanningTime managementProductivityOperations
DecisionTreeOptions
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Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
Constraint Analysis
A paper-based illustration representing Customer Journey Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
Customer Journey Canvas
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