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UX Research
User Interviews
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Product Strategy
DIBB
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Decision Making
Trade-off Analysis
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.DIBB helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities by making the logic behind a decision explicit. It captures results as a DIBB document, belief list, bet list, and learning report.With limited resources, quality, speed, cost, and risk almost always compete with each other. Trade-off Analysis makes these tensions explicit and prevents decisions from producing hidden side effects.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowMedium
Timedifferent
30–60 min per interview1-2 h45-120 min
Participantsdifferent
1 participant per interview2-82-8
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Interview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryDIBB document, Belief list, Bet list, Learning reportTrade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted Downsides
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QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
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