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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 for Current Reality Tree
Systems Thinking
Current Reality Tree
Paper illustration of MORT Analysis with its method-specific working model.
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MORT Analysis
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.A Current Reality Tree condenses many symptoms into a few causal chains. The method makes visible which core problems drive several negative effects at once.For a safety-relevant event or a system with high protection requirements, the method examines where controls failed. It exposes both technical and organizational gaps.
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Timedifferent
30–60 min per interview2-6 hMehrere Tage bis Wochen
Participantsdifferent
1 participant per interview3-82-6
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Interview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryCurrent Reality Tree, Core Problems, Intervention IdeasMORT Worksheets, Findings per Branch, Corrective Actions, Systemic Recommendations
Tagsno overlap
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
Systems thinkingRoot causeConstraintsCausality
Root causeSafetySystemicIncident
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Paper illustration for Theory of Constraints Thinking Process.
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