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Paper illustration for Intervention Mapping.
Systems Thinking
Intervention Mapping
Paper illustration of two people facing each other, speech bubbles and an open interview notebook.
UX Research
User Interviews
Paper illustration for Current Reality Tree
Systems Thinking
Current Reality Tree
Purposedifferent
Intervention Mapping translates a need for change into a planned, evaluable program. The method connects target group, determinants, actions, and measurement into a traceable chain.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.A Current Reality Tree condenses many symptoms into a few causal chains. The method makes visible which core problems drive several negative effects at once.
Complexitydifferent
HighLowHigh
Timedifferent
1-5 Tage30–60 min per interview2-6 h
Participantsdifferent
4-121 participant per interview3-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Logic Model, Change Objectives, Intervention Components, Evaluation PlanInterview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryCurrent Reality Tree, Core Problems, Intervention Ideas
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ChangeSystems thinkingCapability
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
Systems thinkingRoot causeConstraintsCausality
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Systems Thinking
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