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Criterion
Paper illustration for Time Blocking
Operations
Time Blocking
Paper illustration of two people facing each other, speech bubbles and an open interview notebook.
UX Research
User Interviews
A paper-based illustration representing Event Modeling with its core stages and visible working result.
Knowledge Modeling
Event Modeling
Purposedifferent
With a calendar that grows on request, the method makes available time explicit again. It combines appointments, focus work, and buffer into a more realistic day structure.When teams derive needs only from assumptions and real motives are missing, user interviews give direct access to behavior and meaning. Conversations from the target group's everyday life make patterns, tensions, and open questions solidly visible.Event Modeling connects business workflows with commands, events, and views into one coherent mental model. It helps design behavior, UI, and technical slices from the same underlying logic.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowMedium
Timedifferent
15-30 min Planung, laufend30–60 min per interview2-6 h
Participantsdifferent
11 participant per interview2-8
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Blocked Calendar, Capacity View, Focus PlanInterview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryEvent Model, UI Flow, Commands, Read Models
Tagsno overlap
PlanningTime managementFocus
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
EventsBlueprintDomain-Driven DesignBehavior
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EventStorming on a long working surface: colored event cards form a business flow, friction points are marked, and a boundary separates different areas of responsibility.
Domain Modeling
EventStorming
Paper illustration for ALPEN Method
Operations
ALPEN Method
Paper illustration of a branching impact map with a Why goal at the root, actor circles, How behavior changes and What options.
Product Strategy
Impact Mapping
Paper illustration for Opportunity Interview
Product Discovery
Opportunity Interview