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Six paper cards show a person moving from a problem through a service flow to a completed outcome.
UX Design
Storyboarding
Paper illustration for Solution Interview
Product Discovery
Solution Interview
Paper illustration showing three sorted card stacks and an open question about a possible group.
UX Research
Card Sorting
Purposedifferent
When a usage scenario needs to become understandable early, it condenses situations, context, and flow into a legible sequence. It helps check concept ideas before anything gets built.When a solution idea is already on the table, it checks how it is understood and evaluated. It looks for resonance, objections, and missing fit early in the conversation.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
30-90 min30-60 min je Interview20-45 min
Participantsdifferent
1-85-10 InterviewsBased on research question
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Storyboard, Concept Narrative, Testable AssumptionsSolution Feedback, Objection List, Validation NotesContent groups, Label set, IA hypotheses
Tagsno overlap
VisualizationConceptsSequencePrototype
ValidationInterviewsPrototype
Information architectureNavigationStructure
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A paper-based illustration representing Design Sprint with its core stages and visible working result.
Innovation
Design Sprint
First-click Testing method illustration showing its working structure
UX Research
First-click Testing
Paper illustration for Problem Interview
Product Discovery
Problem Interview
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UX Research
Tree Testing