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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 of Outcome-Driven Innovation with its method-specific working model.
Product Discovery
Outcome-Driven Innovation
A paper-based illustration representing arc42 with its core stages and visible working result.
Architecture
arc42
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.Outcome-Driven Innovation clarifies customer problems, solution opportunities, and evidence. It separates jobs, desired outcomes, importance, satisfaction, and opportunity, and captures results as desired outcome statements, an opportunity landscape, and segments by underserved needs.arc42 structures architecture knowledge so teams can document system, decisions, and risks consistently. The template builds a living understanding of the architecture instead of scattered notes.
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30-90 minMehrere Wochen1-2 Tage
Participantsdifferent
1-82-6 researchers plus sample1-4
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Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
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Storyboard, Concept Narrative, Testable AssumptionsDesired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypothesesArchitecture Document, Context View, Runtime View, Deployment View
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VisualizationConceptsSequencePrototype
OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative
ArchitectureDocumentationCommunication
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A paper-based illustration representing C4 Model with its core stages and visible working result.
Architecture
C4 Model
Design Thinking as a learning loop: an observation notebook, a focused problem statement, different idea sketches, a cardboard prototype and user-test notes. Feedback leads to new understanding.
Innovation
Design Thinking
Architecture Communication Canvas method illustration showing its working structure
Architecture
Architecture Communication Canvas
Paper illustration of two considered options leading to a decision record with a marked status and visible consequences.
Architecture
Architecture Decision Record