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| Criterion |  UX Research Personas |  UX Design Lean UX Canvas |  Product Discovery Opportunity Scoring |  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. | The Lean UX Canvas helps clarify user behavior, touchpoints, and concept decisions. It makes assumptions and desired outcomes visible and captures the result as a completed canvas, hypothesis list, and first experiment. | When opportunities need ranking by their effect, it makes importance and satisfaction directly comparable. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as an opportunity-score table and top outcomes. | 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 | Medium | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-3 Tage | 2-3 h | 60-120 min | 30–60 min per interview |
Participantsdifferent | Internes Team | 3-8 | 3-6 | 1 participant per interview |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Persona Profiles, Needs Summary, Scenario Notes | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment | Opportunity Score Table, Top Outcomes | Interview Notes, Themes, Insight Summary |
Tagsno overlap | ResearchCustomerSynthesis | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery | PrioritizationDiscoveryOutcomesNeeds | QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery |