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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 Starbursting with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Starbursting
A paper-based illustration representing Customer Journey Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
Customer Journey Canvas
A paper-based illustration representing Brainstorming with its core stages and visible working result.
Innovation
Brainstorming
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.Helps clarify ideas, open questions, and testable next steps in concrete terms. It opens the thinking space, collects ideas, and leads to testable options. The result is captured as a star-shaped question map, question list, and assumption list.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.When a team faces an open question with many obvious directions, the method first creates breadth instead of premature commitment. It separates idea flow from evaluation and makes lines of thought visible, creating a pool for selection and further development.
Complexitydifferent
HighLowMediumLow
Timedifferent
0.5-2 Tage30-60 min1-3 h30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
6-123-103-104-12
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Service Blueprint, Fail Points, Ownership MapStar-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption ListCustomer Journey Canvas, Pain Points, Experience OpportunitiesIdea pool, Theme clusters, Shortlist
Tagsno overlap
Service designOperationsJourneyBlueprint
BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery
JourneyCustomerService designCanvas
BrainstormingIdeationCreativityWorkshopDivergence
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