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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
First-click Testing method illustration showing its working structure
UX Research
First-click Testing
Paper illustration of two people facing each other, speech bubbles and an open interview notebook.
UX Research
User Interviews
Paper illustration of Experiment Canvas with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Product Discovery
Experiment Canvas
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 users immediately turn the wrong way on a screen or wireframe, first click testing checks initial orientation at high speed. The first click shows early whether expectation, labeling, and wayfinding fit together.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.When experiments become unreadable after the fact, it arranges hypothesis, signal, and learning goal on a single canvas. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Completed Experiment Canvas and a Success Metric.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowLowLow
Timedifferent
1-3 Tage1-2 Tage30–60 min per interview30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
Internes Team10-301 participant per interview1-5
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Persona Profiles, Needs Summary, Scenario NotesClick Heatmap, Success Rate, Design RecommendationsInterview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryCompleted Experiment Canvas, Success Metric
Tagsno overlap
ResearchCustomerSynthesis
UXNavigationFindabilityValidation
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis
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