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Paper illustration for Contextual Inquiry.
UX Research
Contextual Inquiry
Scenario Planning method illustration showing its working structure
Business Strategy
Scenario Planning
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.Scenario Planning opens the view to several plausible futures instead of a single forecast. The method protects strategies from depending on too narrow an expected path.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHigh
Timedifferent
1-3 Wochen0.5-2 Tage
Participantsdifferent
4-12 Beobachtungen4-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Field Notes, Workflow Insights, Pain PointsScenario Set, Strategic Implications, Robust Options
Tagsno overlap
UX researchObservationContext
StrategyUncertaintyPlanning
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Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
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