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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 scorecard with four perspectives, connected objective cards and columns for measures, targets and initiatives.
Business Strategy
Balanced Scorecard
Affinity Diagramming
UX Research
Affinity Diagramming
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.Balanced Scorecard translates strategy into a few interconnected perspectives and metrics. It holds impact, steering, and learning together in daily work instead of narrowing strategy down to financial figures.When research notes, feedback, or observations sit unconnected side by side, affinity diagramming sorts the raw material into solid themes. Many individual points turn into patterns that make decisions and opportunities clearer.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
1-3 TageHalber Tag bis mehrere Wochen45–90 min
Participantsdifferent
Internes Team4-123-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Persona Profiles, Needs Summary, Scenario NotesBalanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative MapTheme clusters, Insight statements, Opportunity areas
Tagsno overlap
ResearchCustomerSynthesis
StrategyMetricsExecution
SynthesisQualitativeRoot cause
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Paper illustration of two people facing each other, speech bubbles and an open interview notebook.
UX Research
User Interviews
Paper illustration of Counter Metrics with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
Counter Metrics
Empathy Mapping
UX Research
Empathy Mapping
Paper illustration of KPI Tree with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
KPI Tree