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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 illustration of an IBIS map with issues, positions and arguments
Knowledge Modeling
IBIS
Paper notes move from an inbox to action, project and calendar collections.
Operations
Getting Things Done
Paper illustration of a Concept Map with concepts and labelled links
Knowledge Modeling
Concept 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.IBIS structures thinking about complex questions as a sequence of issues, ideas, and arguments. The method keeps discussions open without forcing them into premature consensus.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.Concept Mapping arranges terms and relationships in a network that makes subject-matter connections tangible. It fits when a topic needs to be understood structurally rather than linearly.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
30-90 min1-3 h1-2 h Setup, laufend1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
1-82-811-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Storyboard, Concept Narrative, Testable AssumptionsIssue Map, Positions, Argument NotesAction Lists, Project List, Review RoutineConcept Map, Relationship Labels, Knowledge Gaps
Tagsno overlap
VisualizationConceptsSequencePrototype
RationaleKnowledgeDecision
ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution
KnowledgeConceptsMappingSensemaking
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