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Paper mind map with a central course onboarding question, colored main branches, keywords and cross-links.
Facilitation
Mind Mapping
Paper illustration for Opportunity Interview
Product Discovery
Opportunity Interview
Paper illustration of two people facing each other, speech bubbles and an open interview notebook.
UX Research
User Interviews
Purposedifferent
When a topic is still unclear and too many thoughts surface at once, Mind Mapping creates an open surface for ordering them. It makes connections, subtopics, and starting points visible without fixing them too early.When opportunities are still hidden behind signals of need, it structures conversations around needs and obstacles. It looks for patterns that lead to new product opportunities.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
15-45 min30-60 min je Interview30–60 min per interview
Participantsdifferent
1-105-12 Interviews1 participant per interview
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Mind Map, Topic Clusters, Open QuestionsInterview Notes, Opportunity Themes, Customer QuotesInterview Notes, Themes, Insight Summary
Tagsno overlap
BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation
DiscoveryInterviewsOpportunityCustomer
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
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Brainwriting
Paper illustration of a branching tree with an outcome at its root, customer opportunities, solution options and small experiment cards.
Product Discovery
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Paper illustration for Problem Framing Workshop.
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Problem Framing Workshop