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Criterion
Six paper cards show a person moving from a problem through a service flow to a completed outcome.
UX Design
Storyboarding
Paper notes move from an inbox to action, project and calendar collections.
Operations
Getting Things Done
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Decision Making
Argument Mapping
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.With many open commitments and ideas in daily life, a reliable external storage system emerges. The method relieves the mind so priority and context don't have to compete in memory.When statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
30-90 min1-2 h Setup, laufend1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
1-811-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Storyboard, Concept Narrative, Testable AssumptionsAction Lists, Project List, Review RoutineArgument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale
Tagsno overlap
VisualizationConceptsSequencePrototype
ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution
SensemakingDecisionRationale
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Operations
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ALPEN Method
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Knowledge Modeling
Concept Mapping
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Decision Making
Constraint Analysis