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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 of two user profile cards with a goal, behavior evidence, and an open research question.
UX Research
Personas
Paper illustration of a branching tree with an outcome at its root, customer opportunities, solution options and small experiment cards.
Product Discovery
Opportunity Solution Tree
Paper illustration of two people facing each other, speech bubbles and an open interview notebook.
UX Research
User Interviews
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 target groups stay too vague and teams talk about the same people differently, personas create a shared, solid picture of usage. Condensed profiles make needs, contexts, and differences tangible enough for decisions.When discovery keeps swinging between goals, ideas, and learning loops, it creates clear steering logic. It connects the desired outcome, opportunities, and experiments into a legible structure.When teams derive needs only from assumptions and real motives are missing, user interviews give direct access to behavior and meaning. Conversations from the target group's everyday life make patterns, tensions, and open questions solidly visible.
Complexitydifferent
HighMediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
0.5-2 Tage1-3 Tage1-2 h Setup, laufend30–60 min per interview
Participantsdifferent
6-12Internes Team2-61 participant per interview
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Service Blueprint, Fail Points, Ownership MapPersona Profiles, Needs Summary, Scenario NotesOpportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning LogInterview Notes, Themes, Insight Summary
Tagsno overlap
Service designOperationsJourneyBlueprint
ResearchCustomerSynthesis
DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
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