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Criterion
A paper-based illustration representing Context Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
Product Discovery
Context Canvas
Paper illustration of two people facing each other, speech bubbles and an open interview notebook.
UX Research
User Interviews
Paper illustration of two user profile cards with a goal, behavior evidence, and an open research question.
UX Research
Personas
Purposedifferent
When an environment of users, systems, and constraints is hard to grasp, it puts the context compactly on the table. It creates a clear reading of influence, boundary, and dependency.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 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.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowMedium
Timedifferent
45-90 min30–60 min per interview1-3 Tage
Participantsdifferent
3-101 participant per interviewInternes Team
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Context canvas, Open questions, Shared context notesInterview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryPersona Profiles, Needs Summary, Scenario Notes
Tagsno overlap
ContextFramingRequirementsCanvas
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
ResearchCustomerSynthesis
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Affinity Diagramming
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Affinity Diagramming
A paper-based illustration representing Customer Journey Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
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Empathy Mapping
UX Research
Empathy Mapping
Paper illustration of Lean UX Canvas with its method-specific working model.
UX Design
Lean UX Canvas