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Criterion
Paper illustration of two people facing each other, speech bubbles and an open interview notebook.
UX Research
User Interviews
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam
Paper illustration of the Consensus Workshop working structure.
Facilitation
Consensus 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 knowledge is distributed and direct dominance should be avoided, groups quickly fall under the sway of their opinion leaders. The Delphi Method gathers assessments iteratively and gradually brings expert judgments closer together.When a decision is stuck, Decision Jam loosens the knot through structured separation of problem, idea, and selection. The format creates movement without jumping prematurely at the first seemingly elegant answer.When a group needs a solid decision without outvoting individual factions, a Consensus Workshop creates a negotiable common ground. It makes agreement, reservations, and open tensions discussable at the same time.
Complexitydifferent
LowHighLowMedium
Timedifferent
30–60 min per interview1-4 Wochen60-90 min1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
1 participant per interview6-30 Experten4-105-30
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Interview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesProblem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, ExperimentConsensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority Areas
Tagsno overlap
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop
FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment
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