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| Criterion |  Decision Making Decision Framing Workshop |  UX Research User Interviews |  Facilitation Consensus Workshop |  Facilitation Decision Jam |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a decision is poorly framed, even good answers deliver little value. A Decision Framing Workshop sharpens the problem, goal, and boundaries before the actual weighing begins. | 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 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 a decision is stuck, Decision Jam loosens the knot through structured separation of problem, idea, and selection. The format creates movement without jumping prematurely at the first seemingly elegant answer. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 60-120 min | 30–60 min per interview | 1-3 h | 60-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 1 participant per interview | 5-30 | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Decision Frame, Decision Question, Criteria List, Evidence Plan | Interview Notes, Themes, Insight Summary | Consensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority Areas | Problem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment |
Tagsno overlap | Decision framingAlignmentCriteriaOptions | QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery | FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment | FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop |