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Criterion
Paper board with the four ROAM fields Resolved, Owned, Accepted, and Mitigated.
Agile
ROAM Board
First-click Testing method illustration showing its working structure
UX Research
First-click Testing
Paper illustration showing three sorted card stacks and an open question about a possible group.
UX Research
Card Sorting
Purposedifferent
When work needs to move between different states or columns, it makes that movement and its handoffs legible. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as a ROAM Board and an Owner List.When users immediately turn the wrong way on a screen or wireframe, first click testing checks initial orientation at high speed. The first click shows early whether expectation, labeling, and wayfinding fit together.When content only makes sense internally and users can't find the structure again, card sorting exposes their mental order. Terms, groups, and naming are then aligned with the target group's expectations.
Complexitysame
LowLowLow
Timedifferent
20-40 min initial, dann laufend1-2 Tage20-45 min
Participantsdifferent
3-1510-30Based on research question
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
ROAM Board, Owner ListClick Heatmap, Success Rate, Design RecommendationsContent groups, Label set, IA hypotheses
Tagsno overlap
RiskAgileTrackingAlignment
UXNavigationFindabilityValidation
Information architectureNavigationStructure
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Paper illustration of a branching category tree with a highlighted search path and possible dead ends.
UX Research
Tree Testing
Paper illustration of a calm four-quadrant Assumption Map with hypothesis cards and emphasis on important assumptions with little evidence.
Product Discovery
Assumption Mapping
Paper illustration for Risk Storming.
Architecture
Risk Storming