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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
Scenario Planning method illustration showing its working structure
Business Strategy
Scenario Planning
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.Scenario Planning opens the view to several plausible futures instead of a single forecast. The method protects strategies from depending on too narrow an expected path.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 Tage0.5-2 Tage30–60 min per interview
Participantsdifferent
Internes Team4-121 participant per interview
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Persona Profiles, Needs Summary, Scenario NotesScenario Set, Strategic Implications, Robust OptionsInterview Notes, Themes, Insight Summary
Tagsno overlap
ResearchCustomerSynthesis
StrategyUncertaintyPlanning
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
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Gap Analysis method illustration showing its working structure
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