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Criterion
Paper illustration of several people silently writing ideas and passing sheets around with arrows.
Innovation
Brainwriting
Paper illustration of two people facing each other, speech bubbles and an open interview notebook.
UX Research
User Interviews
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
Purposedifferent
When loud voices or hierarchy distort the idea search, the method creates a quiet entry into joint development. It gives everyone thinking space and gathers contributions without social brakes, making diversity more visible and easier to build on.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 discovery keeps swinging between goals, ideas, and learning loops, it creates clear steering logic. It connects the desired outcome, opportunities, and experiments into a legible structure.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowMedium
Timedifferent
15-30 min30–60 min per interview1-2 h Setup, laufend
Participantsdifferent
3-121 participant per interview2-6
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Idea sheets, Expanded concepts, Prioritized listInterview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryOpportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log
Tagsno overlap
BrainstormingCollaborationInclusionIdeas
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity
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