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| Criterion |  UX Research Personas |  UX Research Surveys |  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. | When a topic needs to be validated broadly and many people can answer the same question, surveys gather structured feedback in a scalable form. Answers become comparable and segmentable instead of remaining merely anecdotal. | 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 | 3-14 Tage | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | Internes Team | 50+ | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Persona Profiles, Needs Summary, Scenario Notes | Survey Results, Charts, Segment Insights | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings |
Tags1 shared | ResearchCustomerSynthesis | QuantitativeResearchValidation | InnovationPrototypeResearch |
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