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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 mind map with a central course onboarding question, colored main branches, keywords and cross-links.
Facilitation
Mind Mapping
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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.When a topic is still unclear and too many thoughts surface at once, Mind Mapping creates an open surface for ordering them. It makes connections, subtopics, and starting points visible without fixing them too early.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
30-90 min15-45 min1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
1-81-101-8
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Storyboard, Concept Narrative, Testable AssumptionsMind Map, Topic Clusters, Open QuestionsConcept Map, Relationship Labels, Knowledge Gaps
Tagsno overlap
VisualizationConceptsSequencePrototype
BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation
KnowledgeConceptsMappingSensemaking
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Knowledge Modeling
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