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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 Service Blueprint with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
Service Blueprinting
Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
Constraint 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 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 service experience is spread across several touchpoints, it brings frontstage and backstage together. It shows where user contact and internal responsibility must fit.When an initiative stalls, the limit often lies not in the idea but in hard or soft boundary conditions. Constraint Analysis separates these limits and shows which of them can actually be shaped.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
MediumHighLowMedium
Timedifferent
45-90 min0.5-2 Tage30-90 min1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
4-126-122-83-10
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Perspective Notes, Decision Inputs, Action ItemsService Blueprint, Fail Points, Ownership MapConstraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision BoundariesCustomer Journey Canvas, Pain Points, Experience Opportunities
Tagsno overlap
FacilitationOptionsDecision
Service designOperationsJourneyBlueprint
ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions
JourneyCustomerService designCanvas
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