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Criterion
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UX Research
User Interviews
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Product Strategy
Counter Metrics
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Facilitation
Problem Framing Workshop
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 a headline metric could mask side effects, it adds guardrail signals against unwanted outcomes. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as a counter-metric list and guardrail definitions.When a team works on symptoms but the real question stays fuzzy, a Problem Framing Workshop sharpens the view of the right problem. It separates observation, interpretation, and target picture from each other.
Complexitysame
LowLowLow
Timedifferent
30–60 min per interview30-60 min60-120 min
Participantsdifferent
1 participant per interview2-64-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Interview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryCounter Metric List, Guardrail DefinitionsProblem Statement, Scope Boundaries, Assumption List, Next Analysis Questions
Tagsno overlap
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
MetricsMeasurementStrategyExperiments
FacilitationAlignmentDiscovery
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Paper illustration of KPI Tree with its method-specific working model.
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Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Paper illustration of Goal Question Metric with its method-specific working model.
Engineering
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