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Criterion
First-click Testing method illustration showing its working structure
UX Research
First-click Testing
Paper illustration of a branching category tree with a highlighted search path and possible dead ends.
UX Research
Tree Testing
Paper illustration of two people facing each other, speech bubbles and an open interview notebook.
UX Research
User Interviews
Paper illustration of Experiment Canvas with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Product Discovery
Experiment Canvas
Purposedifferent
When users immediately turn the wrong way on a screen or wireframe, first click testing checks initial orientation at high speed. The first click shows early whether expectation, labeling, and wayfinding fit together.When a navigation exists but search paths still fail, tree testing checks findability without visual distraction. The method shows whether labels, levels, and paths really lead to the intended destination.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 experiments become unreadable after the fact, it arranges hypothesis, signal, and learning goal on a single canvas. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Completed Experiment Canvas and a Success Metric.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumLowLow
Timedifferent
1-2 Tage1-2 Tage30–60 min per interview30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
10-30Based on research question1 participant per interview1-5
Formatdifferent
AsyncAsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Click Heatmap, Success Rate, Design RecommendationsFindability Metrics, Path Analysis, Revised IAInterview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryCompleted Experiment Canvas, Success Metric
Tagsno overlap
UXNavigationFindabilityValidation
Information architectureNavigationFindability
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis
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