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Criterion
Paper illustration for Contextual Inquiry.
UX Research
Contextual Inquiry
Paper illustration of a Lean Canvas with nine fields, notes, and one highlighted learning risk.
Product Strategy
Lean Canvas
Purposedifferent
When work processes are known only from accounts and the real context stays hidden, Contextual Inquiry makes behavior at the workplace visible. Observation and follow-up questions together show how people actually work, get interrupted, and improvise.When an early product bet still has too many open points, it brings target group, problem, and assumptions into a single view. It condenses the idea so core risks become nameable.
Complexitysame
MediumMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 Wochen45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
4-12 Beobachtungen1-6
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Field Notes, Workflow Insights, Pain PointsLean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment Backlog
Tagsno overlap
UX researchObservationContext
StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model
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