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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 Starbursting with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Starbursting
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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 ideas, open questions, and testable next steps in concrete terms. It opens the thinking space, collects ideas, and leads to testable options. The result is captured as a star-shaped question map, question list, and assumption list.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 Tage30-60 min30–60 min per interview
Participantsdifferent
Internes Team3-101 participant per interview
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Persona Profiles, Needs Summary, Scenario NotesStar-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption ListInterview Notes, Themes, Insight Summary
Tagsno overlap
ResearchCustomerSynthesis
BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
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Brainstorming
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Innovation
Design Charrette
Empathy Mapping
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Empathy Mapping
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Innovation
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