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Paper illustration of two people facing each other, speech bubbles and an open interview notebook.
UX Research
User Interviews
Paper illustration for Eat the Frog
Operations
Eat the Frog
Paper illustration for Pareto Analysis
Decision Making
Pareto 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.The method protects energy and attention for the task that creates the largest progress and is often postponed.In many problem situations, effect is distributed unequally across many causes. A Pareto Analysis separates the few drivers with high leverage from the long remainder and focuses attention on what measurably moves the needle.
Complexitysame
LowLowLow
Timedifferent
30–60 min per interview15-90 min daily30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
1 participant per interview11-6
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Interview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryPriority Task, Completion Note, Daily FocusPareto Chart, Top Causes, Focus List
Tagsno overlap
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
PrioritizationProductivityFocusExecution
PrioritizationQualityFocusRoot cause
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Paper illustration for Ivy Lee Method
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Affinity Diagramming
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