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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 of a Learning Card with four fields for hypothesis, observation, insight, and action.
Product Discovery
Learning Card
Paper illustration of MVP Test Matrix with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Product Discovery
MVP Test Matrix
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.The Learning Card connects traceable test results to a reasoned next action while keeping the limits of the insight visible.When several minimal variants compete to answer the same question, it makes comparing and choosing between them cleaner. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Test Matrix and a Test Plan.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowLowMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 Tage30–60 min per interview25-40 min45-75 min
Participantsdifferent
Internes Team1 participant per interview1-52-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Persona Profiles, Needs Summary, Scenario NotesInterview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryLearning Card with evidence and next actionTest Matrix, Test Plan
Tagsno overlap
ResearchCustomerSynthesis
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryLearning
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryOptions
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