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Surveys method illustration showing its working structure
UX Research
Surveys
Design Thinking as a learning loop: an observation notebook, a focused problem statement, different idea sketches, a cardboard prototype and user-test notes. Feedback leads to new understanding.
Innovation
Design Thinking
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Paper illustration of a calm four-quadrant Assumption Map with hypothesis cards and emphasis on important assumptions with little evidence.
Product Discovery
Assumption Mapping
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.For complex user problems with an uncertain cause, the method connects observation, interpretation, and experiment into a learning cycle. It keeps the focus on real needs and avoids premature solution language. This produces robust decisions for product and service.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 assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighLowMedium
Timedifferent
3-14 Tage1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen30 min Setup, dann laufend45-60 min
Participantsdifferent
50+4-101-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone2-8
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshopAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Survey Results, Charts, Segment InsightsProblem Statement, Prototype, Test LearningsRAID Log, Status Report SourceAssumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking
Tagsno overlap
QuantitativeResearchValidation
InnovationPrototypeResearch
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation
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