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Criterion
Paper matrix with six colored hat cards for information, feeling, value, caution, ideas and process control.
Facilitation
Six Thinking Hats
A paper-based illustration representing Customer Journey Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
Customer Journey Canvas
Decision Tree method illustration showing its working structure
Decision Making
Decision Tree
A paper-based illustration representing Service Blueprint with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
Service Blueprinting
Purposedifferent
When a topic gets stuck too quickly in the same thinking mode, Six Thinking Hats deliberately separates the perspectives. This means facts, risks, creativity, and emotional signals get worked through one after another instead of mixed together.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.For decisions with follow-on paths and dependencies, a linear comparison is often not enough. A Decision Tree shows how options branch under conditions and which consequences hang on each branch.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumMediumHigh
Timedifferent
45-90 min1-3 h30-90 min0.5-2 Tage
Participantsdifferent
4-123-101-66-12
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Perspective Notes, Decision Inputs, Action ItemsCustomer Journey Canvas, Pain Points, Experience OpportunitiesDecision Tree, Option Map, Assumption ListService Blueprint, Fail Points, Ownership Map
Tagsno overlap
FacilitationOptionsDecision
JourneyCustomerService designCanvas
DecisionTreeOptions
Service designOperationsJourneyBlueprint
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