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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
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Product Discovery
Fake Door Test
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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.When demand is still unclear, it measures interest in a feature before it is built. It separates real behavior from polite agreement and deliberately keeps build effort small.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 Tage1-5 Tage30–60 min per interview
Participantsdifferent
Internes TeamNutzertraffic1 participant per interview
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Persona Profiles, Needs Summary, Scenario NotesClick Data, Interest Signal, Learning DecisionInterview Notes, Themes, Insight Summary
Tagsno overlap
ResearchCustomerSynthesis
ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
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Experiment Canvas
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Product Discovery
Learning Card
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