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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 of Design Charrette with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Design Charrette
EventStorming on a long working surface: colored event cards form a business flow, friction points are marked, and a boundary separates different areas of responsibility.
Domain Modeling
EventStorming
Paper illustration of Starbursting with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Starbursting
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 a tightly timed design process with many participants, the method pools several lines of thinking in a short time. It brings parallel design energy without letting the discussion tip into endless coordination. This quickly produces solid directions for architecture or space.When a domain consists of many events, rules, and states, it creates a shared modeling space for the team. It bundles language, flows, and boundaries before domain knowledge fragments into siloed views.Helps clarify ideas, open questions, and testable next steps in concrete terms. It opens the thinking space, collects ideas, and leads to testable options. The result is captured as a star-shaped question map, question list, and assumption list.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
30–60 min per interviewHalber Tag bis mehrere Tage2-8 h30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
1 participant per interview10-505-123-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Interview Notes, Themes, Insight SummarySketches and Concepts, Consolidated Solution Sketch, Prioritized DirectionEvent Timeline, Ubiquitous Language, Boundaries, Open QuestionsStar-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption List
Tagsno overlap
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
BrainstormingWorkshopCollaborationIdeation
Domain-Driven DesignEventsDiscoveryWorkshop
BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery
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