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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 Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
Operations
Failure Mode and Effects 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.For a process, product, or service with noticeable failure risks, the method assesses possible failure modes in advance. It directs attention to combinations of occurrence, effect, and detectability.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHigh
Timedifferent
30-90 min2-6 h
Participantsdifferent
1-83-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Storyboard, Concept Narrative, Testable AssumptionsFMEA Table, Risk Priority, Mitigation Actions
Tagsno overlap
VisualizationConceptsSequencePrototype
RiskQualityOperationsRoot cause
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Paper fishbone diagram with a measurable effect at the head and six labeled cause branches.
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Fishbone Diagram
Paper illustration of Scatter Diagram with its method-specific working model.
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Scatter Diagram
Paper illustration for 8D Problem Solving.
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8D Problem Solving
Paper illustration for Fault Tree Analysis.
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Fault Tree Analysis