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Criterion
Paper illustration of two people facing each other, speech bubbles and an open interview notebook.
UX Research
User Interviews
Context Map workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Domain Modeling
Context Map
Paper illustration of a branching impact map with a Why goal at the root, actor circles, How behavior changes and What options.
Product Strategy
Impact Mapping
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.When several contexts need to talk to each other, it makes their relationships and dependencies legible. It helps sort integration pressure and responsibilities across system boundaries.When a goal needs to be connected to several possible paths, it shows chains of impact instead of feature lists. It connects business goal, behavior change, and measures.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
LowMediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
30–60 min per interview1-3 h45-90 min2-6 h
Participantsdifferent
1 participant per interview2-83-82-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Interview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryContext Map, Integration Patterns, Boundary NotesImpact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery OptionsEvent Model, UI Flow, Commands, Read Models
Tagsno overlap
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
Domain-Driven DesignBoundariesStrategy
OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning
EventsBlueprintDomain-Driven DesignBehavior
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