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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
Decision Tree method illustration showing its working structure
Decision Making
Decision Tree
Paper illustration of two people facing each other, speech bubbles and an open interview notebook.
UX Research
User Interviews
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.For decisions with follow-on paths and dependencies, a linear comparison is often not enough. A Decision Tree shows how options branch under conditions and which consequences hang on each branch.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
MediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
1-3 Tage30-90 min30–60 min per interview
Participantsdifferent
Internes Team1-61 participant per interview
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Persona Profiles, Needs Summary, Scenario NotesDecision Tree, Option Map, Assumption ListInterview Notes, Themes, Insight Summary
Tagsno overlap
ResearchCustomerSynthesis
DecisionTreeOptions
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
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Affinity Diagramming
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Affinity Diagramming
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Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
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Empathy Mapping
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