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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
Empathy Mapping
UX Research
Empathy Mapping
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 a lot is assumed about a target group but little is seen jointly, empathy mapping makes knowledge and gaps directly comparable. The picture also shows which assumptions hold up and where evidence is missing.
Complexitydifferent
HighMediumLow
Timedifferent
0.5-2 Tage1-3 h30–60 min
Participantsdifferent
6-123-104-8
Formatsame
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Service Blueprint, Fail Points, Ownership MapCustomer Journey Canvas, Pain Points, Experience OpportunitiesEmpathy Map, Assumptions List, Research Gaps
Tagsno overlap
Service designOperationsJourneyBlueprint
JourneyCustomerService designCanvas
SynthesisQualitativeWorkshop
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Affinity Diagramming
UX Research
Affinity Diagramming
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
Software Architecture Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Software Architecture Canvas