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Criterion
Paper illustration of two user profile cards with a goal, behavior evidence, and an open research question.
UX Research
Personas
Paper illustration for Argument Mapping
Decision Making
Argument Mapping
Paper illustration for Knowledge Mapping.
Knowledge Modeling
Knowledge Mapping
Red Teaming method illustration showing its working structure
Decision Making
Red Teaming
Purposedifferent
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.When statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on.Knowledge Mapping makes knowledge, gaps, and transfer paths visible across a field. It fits when expertise should not just exist but also be findable and transferable.For strategic decisions with high reach, agreement and gut feeling are often not enough. Red teaming brings deliberate opposition into the situation and tests where a plan breaks under real counterarguments.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
1-3 Tage1-3 h1-3 h1-4 h
Participantsdifferent
Internes Team1-83-123-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Persona Profiles, Needs Summary, Scenario NotesArgument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision RationaleKnowledge Map, Critical Knowledge Areas, Transfer PlanChallenge Findings, Risk Register, Mitigation Plan
Tagsno overlap
ResearchCustomerSynthesis
SensemakingDecisionRationale
KnowledgeMappingRisk
RiskDecisionSensemaking
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