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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 for Root Cause Analysis.
Operations
Root Cause Analysis
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 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 a problem keeps recurring and the cause stays unclear, the method exposes the underlying mechanism. It separates symptom, guess, and robust explanation from one another.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
HighMediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
0.5-2 Tage1-3 Tage1-4 h1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
6-12Internes Team3-83-10
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Service Blueprint, Fail Points, Ownership MapPersona Profiles, Needs Summary, Scenario NotesProblem Statement, Cause Hypotheses, Confirmed Causes, Action PlanCustomer Journey Canvas, Pain Points, Experience Opportunities
Tagsno overlap
Service designOperationsJourneyBlueprint
ResearchCustomerSynthesis
Root causeProblem solvingQualityIncident
JourneyCustomerService designCanvas
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