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Criterion
Surveys method illustration showing its working structure
UX Research
Surveys
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UX Research
User Interviews
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Product Discovery
Learning Card
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 teams derive needs only from assumptions and real motives are missing, user interviews give direct access to behavior and meaning. Conversations from the target group's everyday life make patterns, tensions, and open questions solidly visible.The Learning Card connects traceable test results to a reasoned next action while keeping the limits of the insight visible.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowLow
Timedifferent
3-14 Tage30–60 min per interview25-40 min
Participantsdifferent
50+1 participant per interview1-5
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Survey Results, Charts, Segment InsightsInterview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryLearning Card with evidence and next action
Tagsno overlap
QuantitativeResearchValidation
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryLearning
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