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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
Surveys method illustration showing its working structure
UX Research
Surveys
A paper-based illustration representing Design Sprint with its core stages and visible working result.
Innovation
Design Sprint
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 a topic needs to be validated broadly and many people can answer the same question, surveys gather structured feedback in a scalable form. Answers become comparable and segmentable instead of remaining merely anecdotal.When the product question is unclear and time pressure is high, the method takes a team from an open idea to a testable solution. It connects problem understanding, decision, and learning in one compact format, lowering the risk of spending a lot of energy on a mere guess.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumMediumHigh
Timedifferent
30-90 min30-60 min je Interview3-14 Tage4-5 Tage
Participantsdifferent
1-85-10 Interviews50+5-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Storyboard, Concept Narrative, Testable AssumptionsSolution Feedback, Objection List, Validation NotesSurvey Results, Charts, Segment InsightsPrototype, Test Findings, Decision Rationale
Tagsno overlap
VisualizationConceptsSequencePrototype
ValidationInterviewsPrototype
QuantitativeResearchValidation
Design sprintPrototypeValidationInnovation
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