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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 Power-Interest Grid with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Facilitation
Power Interest Grid
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 many stakeholders compete for attention at once, the Power Interest Grid sorts them by influence and stake. It turns individual contributions into a visible selection. The result is captured as a Power Interest Grid and a stakeholder-specific strategy.
Complexitydifferent
LowHighLow
Timedifferent
30–60 min per interview1-4 Wochen30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
1 participant per interview6-30 Experten2-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Interview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesPower Interest Grid, Strategy per Stakeholder
Tagsno overlap
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentPlanning
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Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
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Alignment Mapping
Paper illustration for Problem Framing Workshop.
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Problem Framing Workshop
Stakeholder Mapping
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Stakeholder Mapping
Paper illustration of Stakeholder Salience Model with its method-specific working model.
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Stakeholder Salience Model