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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 of Shape Up with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Shape Up
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.Shape Up helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow. It makes work boundaries and decisions explicit and captures results as pitches, bet-table decisions, and hill charts.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
MediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
1-3 Tage6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down30–60 min per interview
Participantsdifferent
Internes Team2-4 pro Pitch1 participant per interview
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Persona Profiles, Needs Summary, Scenario NotesPitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomesInterview Notes, Themes, Insight Summary
Tagsno overlap
ResearchCustomerSynthesis
PlanningDeliveryAutonomy
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
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Affinity Diagramming
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Communication Plan
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Empathy Mapping
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