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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 Risk Storming.
Architecture
Risk Storming
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.Helps clarify architecture context, options, and consequences in concrete terms. It organizes technical context, alternatives, and consequences. The result is captured as an Annotated Diagram, a Prioritized Risk List, and an Action Backlog.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
MediumLowLow
Timedifferent
1-3 Tage60-90 min30–60 min per interview
Participantsdifferent
Internes Team4-121 participant per interview
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Persona Profiles, Needs Summary, Scenario NotesAnnotated Diagram, Prioritized Risk List, Action BacklogInterview Notes, Themes, Insight Summary
Tagsno overlap
ResearchCustomerSynthesis
RiskArchitectureWorkshopValidation
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
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Empathy Mapping
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Empathy Mapping
Affinity Diagramming
UX Research
Affinity Diagramming
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Paper illustration of a calm four-quadrant Assumption Map with hypothesis cards and emphasis on important assumptions with little evidence.
Product Discovery
Assumption Mapping