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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
Paper illustration for RAPID
Decision Making
RAPID
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.In complex management decisions, clarity is often missing about who recommends, who agrees, and who makes the decision. RAPID creates this assignment and stabilizes decisions across several levels.
Complexitydifferent
HighMediumMedium
Timedifferent
0.5-2 Tage2-4 h45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
6-124-103-12
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Service Blueprint, Fail Points, Ownership MapJourney Map, Pain-point List, Opportunity BacklogRAPID Role Map, Recommendation, Decision Log
Tagsno overlap
Service designOperationsJourneyBlueprint
JourneyServiceService design
DecisionRolesGovernance
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Paper illustration of an activity-role table with clear RACI assignments and one highlighted accountable role per activity.
Operations
RACI Matrix
A paper-based illustration representing Customer Journey Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
Customer Journey Canvas
Paper illustration of Decision Rights Mapping with its method-specific working model.
Decision Making
Decision Rights Mapping