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Criterion
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UX Research
User Interviews
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Delivery
Communication Plan
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Product Discovery
Fake Door Test
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.When demand is still unclear, it measures interest in a feature before it is built. It separates real behavior from polite agreement and deliberately keeps build effort small.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowMedium
Timedifferent
30–60 min per interview45-90 min1-5 Tage
Participantsdifferent
1 participant per interview2-6Nutzertraffic
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Interview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryCommunication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message CadenceClick Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision
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QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning
ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery
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