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Criterion
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Paper illustration of two user profile cards with a goal, behavior evidence, and an open research question.
UX Research
Personas
Empathy Mapping
UX Research
Empathy Mapping
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 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 lot is assumed about a target group but little is seen jointly, empathy mapping makes knowledge and gaps directly comparable. The picture also shows which assumptions hold up and where evidence is missing.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumLow
Timedifferent
30 min Setup, dann laufend1-3 Tage30–60 min
Participantsdifferent
1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyoneInternes Team4-8
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
RAID Log, Status Report SourcePersona Profiles, Needs Summary, Scenario NotesEmpathy Map, Assumptions List, Research Gaps
Tagsno overlap
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
ResearchCustomerSynthesis
SynthesisQualitativeWorkshop
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Paper illustration of two people facing each other, speech bubbles and an open interview notebook.
UX Research
User Interviews
Affinity Diagramming
UX Research
Affinity Diagramming
Paper illustration: scenarios and architectural decisions are connected to identified risks.
Architecture
ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method)
Paper illustration for Risk Storming.
Architecture
Risk Storming