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UX Design
Design Studio
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UX Research
User Interviews
Paper illustration of a branching tree with an outcome at its root, customer opportunities, solution options and small experiment cards.
Product Discovery
Opportunity Solution Tree
Purposedifferent
When several designs need to be quickly put in relation to each other, it makes ideas visible and comparable. It encourages early variants instead of long upfront debates.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 discovery keeps swinging between goals, ideas, and learning loops, it creates clear steering logic. It connects the desired outcome, opportunities, and experiments into a legible structure.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 h30–60 min per interview1-2 h Setup, laufend
Participantsdifferent
3-81 participant per interview2-6
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Sketches, Concept Directions, Design DecisionsInterview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryOpportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log
Tagsno overlap
SketchingCollaborationIdeation
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity
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Innovation
Design Charrette
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Experiment Canvas
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