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Criterion
A paper-based illustration representing Service Blueprint with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
Service Blueprinting
Paper illustration for Knowledge Mapping.
Knowledge Modeling
Knowledge Mapping
Paper illustration for Argument Mapping
Decision Making
Argument Mapping
Paper illustration of an assumption matrix with prioritized test cards
Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
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.Knowledge Mapping makes knowledge, gaps, and transfer paths visible across a field. It fits when expertise should not just exist but also be findable and transferable.When statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on.Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it.
Complexitydifferent
HighMediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
0.5-2 Tage1-3 h1-3 h45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
6-123-121-82-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Service Blueprint, Fail Points, Ownership MapKnowledge Map, Critical Knowledge Areas, Transfer PlanArgument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision RationaleAssumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan
Tagsno overlap
Service designOperationsJourneyBlueprint
KnowledgeMappingRisk
SensemakingDecisionRationale
AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery
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