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Criterion
A paper-based illustration representing Service Blueprint with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
Service Blueprinting
A paper-based illustration representing Brainstorming with its core stages and visible working result.
Innovation
Brainstorming
Paper illustration of Starbursting with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Starbursting
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.When a team faces an open question with many obvious directions, the method first creates breadth instead of premature commitment. It separates idea flow from evaluation and makes lines of thought visible, creating a pool for selection and further development.Helps clarify ideas, open questions, and testable next steps in concrete terms. It opens the thinking space, collects ideas, and leads to testable options. The result is captured as a star-shaped question map, question list, and assumption list.
Complexitydifferent
HighLowLow
Timedifferent
0.5-2 Tage30-60 min30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
6-124-123-10
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Service Blueprint, Fail Points, Ownership MapIdea pool, Theme clusters, ShortlistStar-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption List
Tagsno overlap
Service designOperationsJourneyBlueprint
BrainstormingIdeationCreativityWorkshopDivergence
BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery
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Paper illustration of the Lotus Blossom working structure.
Innovation
Lotus Blossom
Paper illustration of Design Charrette with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Design Charrette
Paper illustration of Rapid Ideation with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Rapid Ideation
Paper illustration for Reverse Brainstorming
Innovation
Reverse Brainstorming