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Criterion
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UX Research
User Interviews
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Delivery
Communication Plan
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Decision Making
Decision Tree
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.When many people need to be informed in parallel and messages would otherwise arrive unevenly or too late, a Communication Plan orders communication reliably. Channels, audiences, and cadences interlock so important information doesn't get lost.For decisions with follow-on paths and dependencies, a linear comparison is often not enough. A Decision Tree shows how options branch under conditions and which consequences hang on each branch.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowMedium
Timedifferent
30–60 min per interview45-90 min30-90 min
Participantsdifferent
1 participant per interview2-61-6
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Interview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryCommunication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message CadenceDecision Tree, Option Map, Assumption List
Tagsno overlap
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning
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Architecture
Architecture Communication Canvas
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Decision Making
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