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Criterion
Paper illustration of two people facing each other, speech bubbles and an open interview notebook.
UX Research
User Interviews
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Paper illustration for Opportunity Interview
Product Discovery
Opportunity Interview
Paper illustration for Concierge MVP
Product Discovery
Concierge MVP
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.ARID examines how well developers can work with a technical design. It focuses on a part of the system that can still be revised, between the architecture overview and the detailed specification.When opportunities are still hidden behind signals of need, it structures conversations around needs and obstacles. It looks for patterns that lead to new product opportunities.When an idea can first fail or grow through genuine hands-on support, it relies on manual work instead of automation. It shows whether user value holds up even under manual execution.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
30–60 min per interview2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional30-60 min je Interview1-4 Wochen
Participantsdifferent
1 participant per interviewDesigners, developers as users, and facilitation5-12 Interviews3-10 Kunden
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Interview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryPrioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsInterview Notes, Opportunity Themes, Customer QuotesConcierge Learnings, Service Blueprint, MVP Risks
Tagsno overlap
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
DiscoveryInterviewsOpportunityCustomer
MVPValidationServiceDiscovery
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