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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 Team API with its method-specific working model.
Team Design
Team API
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Architecture
arc42
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 expectations between teams stay fuzzy, it describes how a team can be reached, used, and held accountable. It clarifies responsibility, interaction, and load between teams. The result is captured as a Team API document.arc42 structures architecture knowledge so teams can document system, decisions, and risks consistently. The template builds a living understanding of the architecture instead of scattered notes.
Complexitydifferent
HighLowLow
Timedifferent
0.5-2 TageHalf day initial, dann laufend1-2 Tage
Participantsdifferent
6-12Ein Team plus Stakeholder1-4
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Service Blueprint, Fail Points, Ownership MapTeam API DocumentArchitecture Document, Context View, Runtime View, Deployment View
Tagsno overlap
Service designOperationsJourneyBlueprint
TeamAlignmentCommunicationService
ArchitectureDocumentationCommunication
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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
Architecture Communication Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Communication Canvas
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Architecture
Architecture Decision Record
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Architecture Inception Canvas