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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 of a journey map with four connected phases, several experience lanes and a point marked for closer investigation.
UX Research
Customer Journey Mapping
Process Mapping method illustration showing its working structure
Operations
Process 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 user journey falls apart across many touchpoints, customer journey mapping makes the experience visible as a coherent arc. Phases, emotions, and breaks become legible enough to prioritize critical moments deliberately.With a confusing workflow that has many handoffs, the method makes the actual process visible. It shows where work is passed on, delayed, or duplicated, so improvement targets the right spots.
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Timedifferent
0.5-2 Tage2-4 h1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
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WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Service Blueprint, Fail Points, Ownership MapJourney Map, Pain-point List, Opportunity BacklogProcess Map, Handoff List, Improvement Backlog
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Service designOperationsJourneyBlueprint
JourneyServiceService design
ProcessOperationsImprovement
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Paper illustration of a review with planned work, actual event sequence, comparison, and assigned improvement actions.
Operations
After-Action Review
A paper-based illustration representing Customer Journey Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
Customer Journey Canvas
Gemba Walk workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Operations
Gemba Walk
Paper illustration for Theory of Constraints.
Operations
Theory of Constraints