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Criterion
Paper illustration of two people facing each other, speech bubbles and an open interview notebook.
UX Research
User Interviews
Paper illustration of two considered options leading to a decision record with a marked status and visible consequences.
Architecture
Architecture Decision Record
Paper illustration of Stakeholder Salience Model with its method-specific working model.
Facilitation
Stakeholder Salience Model
Paper illustration for Problem Framing Workshop.
Facilitation
Problem Framing Workshop
Purposedifferent
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.An ADR permanently records an architecture decision with context, trade-offs, and consequence. It creates continuity for later changes because the decision path stays traceable.When stakeholders appear to matter very differently, the Stakeholder Salience Model rates their actual priority through power, legitimacy, and urgency. It turns individual contributions into a visible selection. The result is captured as a Salience diagram and a class-based strategy.When a team works on symptoms but the real question stays fuzzy, a Problem Framing Workshop sharpens the view of the right problem. It separates observation, interpretation, and target picture from each other.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowMediumLow
Timedifferent
30–60 min per interview15-45 min60-90 min60-120 min
Participantsdifferent
1 participant per interview1-33-64-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Interview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryADR File, Decision Log, RationaleSalience Diagram, Strategy per ClassProblem Statement, Scope Boundaries, Assumption List, Next Analysis Questions
Tagsno overlap
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance
StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentGovernance
FacilitationAlignmentDiscovery
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