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Criterion
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UX Research
User Interviews
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Decision Making
Decision Framing Workshop
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Decision Making
Option Framing
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 decision is poorly framed, even good answers deliver little value. A Decision Framing Workshop sharpens the problem, goal, and boundaries before the actual weighing begins.In early decisions, alternatives are often still vague, incomplete, or blended together. Option Framing brings every possibility into a comparable form and makes visible which variant actually fits the question.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumMedium
Timedifferent
30–60 min per interview60-120 min45-120 min
Participantsdifferent
1 participant per interview4-103-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Interview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryDecision Frame, Decision Question, Criteria List, Evidence PlanOption Frames, Assumption Notes, Comparable Shortlist, Decision Inputs
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QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
Decision framingAlignmentCriteriaOptions
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