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Criterion
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Affinity Diagramming
UX Research
Affinity Diagramming
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UX Research
User Interviews
Purposedifferent
Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as a RAID Log and a source for status reporting.When research notes, feedback, or observations sit unconnected side by side, affinity diagramming sorts the raw material into solid themes. Many individual points turn into patterns that make decisions and opportunities clearer.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.
Complexitysame
LowLowLow
Timedifferent
30 min Setup, dann laufend45–90 min30–60 min per interview
Participantsdifferent
1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone3-101 participant per interview
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
RAID Log, Status Report SourceTheme clusters, Insight statements, Opportunity areasInterview Notes, Themes, Insight Summary
Tagsno overlap
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
SynthesisQualitativeRoot cause
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
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Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
Paper illustration: scenarios and architectural decisions are connected to identified risks.
Architecture
ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method)
Empathy Mapping
UX Research
Empathy Mapping