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Paper illustration of two people facing each other, speech bubbles and an open interview notebook.
UX Research
User Interviews
Paper illustration for Change Analysis.
Operations
Change Analysis
A paper-based illustration representing Event Modeling with its core stages and visible working result.
Knowledge Modeling
Event Modeling
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.For a deviation after a change, the method isolates the influence of the altered condition. It narrows down which differences are relevant and which are just accompanying noise.Event Modeling connects business workflows with commands, events, and views into one coherent mental model. It helps design behavior, UI, and technical slices from the same underlying logic.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumMedium
Timedifferent
30–60 min per interview45-120 min2-6 h
Participantsdifferent
1 participant per interview2-62-8
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Interview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryChange Matrix, Cause Hypotheses, Validation Questions, Action ListEvent Model, UI Flow, Commands, Read Models
Tagsno overlap
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
ChangeRoot causeTroubleshootingComparison
EventsBlueprintDomain-Driven DesignBehavior
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EventStorming on a long working surface: colored event cards form a business flow, friction points are marked, and a boundary separates different areas of responsibility.
Domain Modeling
EventStorming
Affinity Diagramming
UX Research
Affinity Diagramming
Paper illustration for Opportunity Interview
Product Discovery
Opportunity Interview