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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 Ideal Days.
Agile
Ideal Days
A paper-based illustration representing Customer Journey Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
Customer Journey Canvas
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 effort needs to be thought of as real working time, it offers a simple common denominator for comparison. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as Ideal Day Estimates, Assumption Notes, and Capacity Caveats.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.
Complexitydifferent
HighLowMedium
Timedifferent
0.5-2 Tage15-60 min1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
6-122-93-10
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Service Blueprint, Fail Points, Ownership MapIdeal Day Estimates, Assumption Notes, Capacity CaveatsCustomer Journey Canvas, Pain Points, Experience Opportunities
Tagsno overlap
Service designOperationsJourneyBlueprint
EstimationEffortAgile
JourneyCustomerService designCanvas
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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
Paper illustration for Dot Estimation.
Facilitation
Dot Estimation