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Paper illustration for Opportunity Interview
Product Discovery
Opportunity Interview
Empathy Mapping
UX Research
Empathy Mapping
Paper illustration of two user profile cards with a goal, behavior evidence, and an open research question.
UX Research
Personas
Purposedifferent
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 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.When target groups stay too vague and teams talk about the same people differently, personas create a shared, solid picture of usage. Condensed profiles make needs, contexts, and differences tangible enough for decisions.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
30-60 min je Interview30–60 min1-3 Tage
Participantsdifferent
5-12 Interviews4-8Internes Team
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Interview Notes, Opportunity Themes, Customer QuotesEmpathy Map, Assumptions List, Research GapsPersona Profiles, Needs Summary, Scenario Notes
Tagsno overlap
DiscoveryInterviewsOpportunityCustomer
SynthesisQualitativeWorkshop
ResearchCustomerSynthesis
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Paper illustration of two people facing each other, speech bubbles and an open interview notebook.
UX Research
User Interviews
Affinity Diagramming
UX Research
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.
Domain Modeling
EventStorming
Paper illustration of a branching tree with an outcome at its root, customer opportunities, solution options and small experiment cards.
Product Discovery
Opportunity Solution Tree