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Criterion
Paper illustration of two people facing each other, speech bubbles and an open interview notebook.
UX Research
User Interviews
Paper illustration of an eight-panel idea sheet with varied sketches beside a timer set to eight minutes.
Innovation
Crazy 8s
Paper illustration of a branching tree with an outcome at its root, customer opportunities, solution options and small experiment cards.
Product Discovery
Opportunity Solution 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.With only a few minutes available and a still-fuzzy solution search, the method forces a wide range of variants. It produces fast sketches before the first idea can settle in, making different directions directly comparable and open to further development.When discovery keeps swinging between goals, ideas, and learning loops, it creates clear steering logic. It connects the desired outcome, opportunities, and experiments into a legible structure.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowMedium
Timedifferent
30–60 min per interview8-15 min1-2 h Setup, laufend
Participantsdifferent
1 participant per interview1-102-6
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Interview Notes, Themes, Insight SummarySketch Set, Idea Shortlist, Direction OptionsOpportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log
Tagsno overlap
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
BrainstormingSketchingSpeedDivergenceDesign sprint
DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity
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Opportunity Interview
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Innovation
Rapid Ideation
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Innovation
Brainstorming
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Product Discovery
Experiment Canvas