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Criterion
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UX Research
User Interviews
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Product Discovery
Dual-Track Agile
Affinity Diagramming
UX Research
Affinity Diagramming
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 uncertainty and delivery run in parallel, it separates learning work from implementation while keeping both connected. It prevents unvalidated ideas from falling directly into the delivery stream.When research notes, feedback, or observations sit unconnected side by side, affinity diagramming sorts the raw material into solid themes. Many individual points turn into patterns that make decisions and opportunities clearer.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumLow
Timedifferent
30–60 min per interviewLaufend, Wochen bis Monate45–90 min
Participantsdifferent
1 participant per interview4-103-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Interview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryDiscovery Backlog, Delivery Backlog, Experiment-Ergebnisse, Validierte StoriesTheme clusters, Insight statements, Opportunity areas
Tagsno overlap
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
AgileDiscoveryDelivery
SynthesisQualitativeRoot cause
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Empathy Mapping
UX Research
Empathy Mapping
Paper illustration for Opportunity Interview
Product Discovery
Opportunity Interview