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Criterion
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UX Research
User Interviews
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Decision Making
Decision Rights Mapping
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.In organizations with many stakeholders, it often blurs who actually decides and who is merely consulted. It separates options, evaluation criteria, and open risks. The result is captured as a Decision Rights matrix and an agreement.
Complexitydifferent
LowMedium
Timedifferent
30–60 min per interview90-180 min
Participantsdifferent
1 participant per interview4-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Interview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryDecision Rights Matrix, Agreement
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QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
DecisionGovernanceAlignmentResponsibility
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