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Paper illustration for 1-2-4-All.
Facilitation
1-2-4-All
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UX Research
User Interviews
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Facilitation
Dot Voting
Purposedifferent
When many people in a group too rarely get to speak, 1-2-4-All distributes thinking time more fairly. The format builds participation step by step and makes quiet or still-unformed thoughts usable faster.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.When a workshop has produced too many options and the group needs to condense quickly, dot voting makes preferences visible in a short time. It bundles individual votes into a solid signal for the next selection.
Complexitysame
LowLowLow
Timedifferent
10-20 min30–60 min per interview5-15 min
Participantsdifferent
4-100+1 participant per interview3-20
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Idea List, Shared Insights, Emergent ThemesInterview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryRanked list, Consensus signal, Shortlist
Tagsno overlap
FacilitationInclusionIdeation
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
FacilitationVotingConsensusPrioritization
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Round Robin Brainstorming
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Consensus Workshop
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Product Discovery
Hypothesis Prioritization Canvas