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| Criterion |  UX Research Personas |  Architecture Quality Attribute Workshop |  Innovation Design Thinking |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | A Quality Attribute Workshop translates quality requirements into concrete scenarios and architecture impulses. The method brings product, engineering, and operations to the same view of desired properties. | For complex user problems with an uncertain cause, the method connects observation, interpretation, and experiment into a learning cycle. It keeps the focus on real needs and avoids premature solution language. This produces robust decisions for product and service. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 1-3 Tage | 2-4 h | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | Internes Team | 5-15 | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Persona Profiles, Needs Summary, Scenario Notes | Quality Scenarios, Priority List, Architecture Concerns | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings |
Tagsno overlap | ResearchCustomerSynthesis | RequirementsArchitectureWorkshop | InnovationPrototypeResearch |
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