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| Criterion |  Delivery RAID Log |  UX Research User Interviews |  UX Research Personas |  UX Research Affinity Diagramming |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 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 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 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 30 min Setup, dann laufend | 30–60 min per interview | 1-3 Tage | 45–90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone | 1 participant per interview | Internes Team | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | RAID Log, Status Report Source | Interview Notes, Themes, Insight Summary | Persona Profiles, Needs Summary, Scenario Notes | Theme clusters, Insight statements, Opportunity areas |
Tagsno overlap | RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance | QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery | ResearchCustomerSynthesis | SynthesisQualitativeRoot cause |