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Criterion
Paper illustration of a four-quadrant grid with tasks sorted by importance and urgency and translated into actions.
Decision Making
Eisenhower Matrix
Paper illustration for Contextual Inquiry.
UX Research
Contextual Inquiry
A paper-based illustration representing Context Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
Product Discovery
Context Canvas
Purposedifferent
It separates true priorities from noise so it becomes clear what should be done now, scheduled, delegated, or dropped.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 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.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumLow
Timedifferent
15-30 min1-3 Wochen45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
1-64-12 Beobachtungen3-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Eisenhower Matrix, Action List, Delegation NotesField Notes, Workflow Insights, Pain PointsContext canvas, Open questions, Shared context notes
Tagsno overlap
PrioritizationFocusTasks
UX researchObservationContext
ContextFramingRequirementsCanvas
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Paper illustration for Eat the Frog
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ABC Analysis
Paper illustration of Acceptance Criteria Workshop with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Acceptance Criteria Workshop