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Criterion
Paper illustration for Time Blocking
Operations
Time Blocking
Paper illustration of two people facing each other, speech bubbles and an open interview notebook.
UX Research
User Interviews
Paper illustration of two user profile cards with a goal, behavior evidence, and an open research question.
UX Research
Personas
Purposedifferent
With a calendar that grows on request, the method makes available time explicit again. It combines appointments, focus work, and buffer into a more realistic day structure.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.When target groups stay too vague and teams talk about the same people differently, personas create a shared, solid picture of usage. Condensed profiles make needs, contexts, and differences tangible enough for decisions.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowMedium
Timedifferent
15-30 min Planung, laufend30–60 min per interview1-3 Tage
Participantsdifferent
11 participant per interviewInternes Team
Formatdifferent
AsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Blocked Calendar, Capacity View, Focus PlanInterview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryPersona Profiles, Needs Summary, Scenario Notes
Tagsno overlap
PlanningTime managementFocus
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
ResearchCustomerSynthesis
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