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Six paper cards show a person moving from a problem through a service flow to a completed outcome.
UX Design
Storyboarding
Paper illustration for CATWOE Analysis.
Systems Thinking
CATWOE Analysis
Purposedifferent
When a usage scenario needs to become understandable early, it condenses situations, context, and flow into a legible sequence. It helps check concept ideas before anything gets built.CATWOE structures a problem from six viewpoints and prevents too narrow a view of the situation. Different experiences of the system become comparably discussable this way.
Complexitysame
MediumMedium
Timedifferent
30-90 min45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
1-83-8
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Storyboard, Concept Narrative, Testable AssumptionsCATWOE Canvas, Root Definition, Stakeholder Perspectives, Constraints
Tagsno overlap
VisualizationConceptsSequencePrototype
Systems thinkingFramingStakeholders
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Rich Picture workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
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Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
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Architecture Communication Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
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