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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 Future Reality Tree.
Systems Thinking
Future Reality Tree
Paper illustration for Evaporating Cloud.
Systems Thinking
Evaporating Cloud
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.A Future Reality Tree shows how desired actions are meant to lead to a better system state. The method checks whether a path of change holds together logically before time flows into implementation.The method makes visible why two seemingly incompatible demands arise and which assumption must be tested to resolve the conflict.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighMedium
Timedifferent
30-90 min2-4 h60-120 min
Participantsdifferent
1-83-82-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Storyboard, Concept Narrative, Testable AssumptionsFuture Reality Tree, Negative Branches, Assumption List, Improved InjectionsConflict Cloud, Assumption List, Breakthrough Ideas, Next Experiments
Tagsno overlap
VisualizationConceptsSequencePrototype
Theory of ConstraintsSystems thinkingChange
Theory of ConstraintsAssumptionsSystems thinking
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Paper illustration for Intervention Mapping.
Systems Thinking
Intervention Mapping
Paper illustration of Leverage Points with its method-specific working model.
Systems Thinking
Leverage Points
Rich Picture workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Systems Thinking
Rich Picture
Systems Mapping method illustration showing its working structure
Systems Thinking
Systems Mapping