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Criterion
A paper-based illustration representing Bounded Context Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
Domain Modeling
Bounded Context Canvas
Paper illustration of two people facing each other, speech bubbles and an open interview notebook.
UX Research
User Interviews
Paper illustration for Opportunity Interview
Product Discovery
Opportunity Interview
Purposedifferent
When a business context is still loosely outlined, it shapes language, responsibility, and integration space. It clarifies what belongs together and where a boundary needs to hold.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 opportunities are still hidden behind signals of need, it structures conversations around needs and obstacles. It looks for patterns that lead to new product opportunities.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 h30–60 min per interview30-60 min je Interview
Participantsdifferent
3-81 participant per interview5-12 Interviews
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Context Canvas, Glossary, Integration NotesInterview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryInterview Notes, Opportunity Themes, Customer Quotes
Tagsno overlap
Domain-Driven DesignBoundariesModeling
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
DiscoveryInterviewsOpportunityCustomer
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Context Map workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Domain Modeling
Context Map
Paper illustration for Domain Context Map
Domain Modeling
Domain Context Map
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 of a branching tree with an outcome at its root, customer opportunities, solution options and small experiment cards.
Product Discovery
Opportunity Solution Tree