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Empathy Mapping
UX Research
Empathy Mapping
Quality Attribute Workshop workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Architecture
Quality Attribute Workshop
Paper illustration of two people facing each other, speech bubbles and an open interview notebook.
UX Research
User Interviews
Purposedifferent
When a lot is assumed about a target group but little is seen jointly, empathy mapping makes knowledge and gaps directly comparable. The picture also shows which assumptions hold up and where evidence is missing.A Quality Attribute Workshop translates quality requirements into concrete scenarios and architecture impulses. The method brings product, engineering, and operations to the same view of desired properties.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.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumLow
Timedifferent
30–60 min2-4 h30–60 min per interview
Participantsdifferent
4-85-151 participant per interview
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Empathy Map, Assumptions List, Research GapsQuality Scenarios, Priority List, Architecture ConcernsInterview Notes, Themes, Insight Summary
Tagsno overlap
SynthesisQualitativeWorkshop
RequirementsArchitectureWorkshop
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
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Affinity Diagramming
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Affinity Diagramming
EventStorming on a long working surface: colored event cards form a business flow, friction points are marked, and a boundary separates different areas of responsibility.
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EventStorming
Paper illustration for Opportunity Interview
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