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Surveys method illustration showing its working structure
UX Research
Surveys
Paper illustration for 1-2-4-All.
Facilitation
1-2-4-All
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Paper illustration for Round Robin Brainstorming
Innovation
Round Robin Brainstorming
Purposedifferent
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 many people in a group too rarely get to speak, 1-2-4-All distributes thinking time more fairly. The format builds participation step by step and makes quiet or still-unformed thoughts usable faster.When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable.With unevenly distributed speaking time, the method brings every person into the contribution one after another. It prevents early voices from setting the direction while still producing a shared idea space. This makes participation plannable and the team's diversity visible.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMediumLow
Timedifferent
3-14 Tage10-20 min1-2 h20-45 min
Participantsdifferent
50+4-100+4-124-10
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Survey Results, Charts, Segment InsightsIdea List, Shared Insights, Emergent ThemesAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision QuestionsIdea List, Cluster, Shortlist
Tagsno overlap
QuantitativeResearchValidation
FacilitationInclusionIdeation
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
BrainstormingIdeationFacilitationInclusionCreativity
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