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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 two people facing each other, speech bubbles and an open interview notebook.
UX Research
User Interviews
Paper illustration for Decision Framing Workshop.
Decision Making
Decision Framing Workshop
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 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.When a decision is poorly framed, even good answers deliver little value. A Decision Framing Workshop sharpens the problem, goal, and boundaries before the actual weighing begins.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 Tage30–60 min per interview60-120 min
Participantsdifferent
Internes Team1 participant per interview4-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Persona Profiles, Needs Summary, Scenario NotesInterview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryDecision Frame, Decision Question, Criteria List, Evidence Plan
Tagsno overlap
ResearchCustomerSynthesis
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
Decision framingAlignmentCriteriaOptions
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