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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 Customer Journey Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
Customer Journey Canvas
Affinity Diagramming
UX Research
Affinity Diagramming
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 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.When research notes, feedback, or observations sit unconnected side by side, affinity diagramming sorts the raw material into solid themes. Many individual points turn into patterns that make decisions and opportunities clearer.
Complexitydifferent
HighMediumLow
Timedifferent
0.5-2 Tage1-3 h45–90 min
Participantsdifferent
6-123-103-10
Formatsame
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Service Blueprint, Fail Points, Ownership MapCustomer Journey Canvas, Pain Points, Experience OpportunitiesTheme clusters, Insight statements, Opportunity areas
Tagsno overlap
Service designOperationsJourneyBlueprint
JourneyCustomerService designCanvas
SynthesisQualitativeRoot cause
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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
Empathy Mapping
UX Research
Empathy Mapping
Paper illustration for Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
Operations
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
Paper fishbone diagram with a measurable effect at the head and six labeled cause branches.
Operations
Fishbone Diagram