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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
A paper-based illustration representing Event Modeling with its core stages and visible working result.
Knowledge Modeling
Event Modeling
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.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.
Complexitydifferent
HighLowMedium
Timedifferent
0.5-2 Tage10-20 min daily2-6 h
Participantsdifferent
6-1212-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Service Blueprint, Fail Points, Ownership MapDaily Plan, Time Estimates, Review NotesEvent Model, UI Flow, Commands, Read Models
Tagsno overlap
Service designOperationsJourneyBlueprint
PlanningTime managementProductivityOperations
EventsBlueprintDomain-Driven DesignBehavior
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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
EventStorming on a long working surface: colored event cards form a business flow, friction points are marked, and a boundary separates different areas of responsibility.
Domain Modeling
EventStorming
Paper notes move from an inbox to action, project and calendar collections.
Operations
Getting Things Done