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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
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UX Research
User Interviews
Independent contributions form an ordered group priority list.
Facilitation
Nominal Group Technique
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 loud voices could dominate a round, Nominal Group Technique protects individual thinking time from group effects. It collects ideas separately first and only then enables shared weighting.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 Tage30–60 min per interview60-120 min
Participantsdifferent
Internes Team1 participant per interview5-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Persona Profiles, Needs Summary, Scenario NotesInterview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryRanked Ideas, Clarified Options, Group Priority
Tagsno overlap
ResearchCustomerSynthesis
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
FacilitationPrioritizationVotingInclusion
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Dot Voting
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Affinity Diagramming
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Affinity Diagramming
Empathy Mapping
UX Research
Empathy Mapping