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Criterion
Paper illustration of the Consensus Workshop working structure.
Facilitation
Consensus Workshop
Paper illustration of two user profile cards with a goal, behavior evidence, and an open research question.
UX Research
Personas
Paper illustration of two people facing each other, speech bubbles and an open interview notebook.
UX Research
User Interviews
Purposedifferent
When a group needs a solid decision without outvoting individual factions, a Consensus Workshop creates a negotiable common ground. It makes agreement, reservations, and open tensions discussable at the same time.When target groups stay too vague and teams talk about the same people differently, personas create a shared, solid picture of usage. Condensed profiles make needs, contexts, and differences tangible enough for decisions.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
1-3 h1-3 Tage30–60 min per interview
Participantsdifferent
5-30Internes Team1 participant per interview
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Consensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority AreasPersona Profiles, Needs Summary, Scenario NotesInterview Notes, Themes, Insight Summary
Tagsno overlap
FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment
ResearchCustomerSynthesis
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
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Empathy Mapping
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Empathy Mapping
Paper illustration for Problem Framing Workshop.
Facilitation
Problem Framing Workshop
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3-Circle Venn Diagram
Affinity Diagramming
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Affinity Diagramming