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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 Intervention Mapping.
Systems Thinking
Intervention Mapping
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.Intervention Mapping translates a need for change into a planned, evaluable program. The method connects target group, determinants, actions, and measurement into a traceable chain.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
MediumHighLow
Timedifferent
1-3 Tage1-5 Tage30–60 min per interview
Participantsdifferent
Internes Team4-121 participant per interview
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Persona Profiles, Needs Summary, Scenario NotesLogic Model, Change Objectives, Intervention Components, Evaluation PlanInterview Notes, Themes, Insight Summary
Tagsno overlap
ResearchCustomerSynthesis
ChangeSystems thinkingCapability
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
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Paper illustration for Future Reality Tree.
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