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Criterion
Paper illustration of two people facing each other, speech bubbles and an open interview notebook.
UX Research
User Interviews
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 the Force Field Analysis working structure.
Decision Making
Force Field Analysis
Context Map workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Domain Modeling
Context Map
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 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.In change initiatives, supporting and restraining forces sit at the table at the same time. Force Field Analysis makes these tensions explicit and shows where change can be pushed forward by strengthening or relieving.When several contexts need to talk to each other, it makes their relationships and dependencies legible. It helps sort integration pressure and responsibilities across system boundaries.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
30–60 min per interview2-8 h45-90 min1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
1 participant per interview5-123-122-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Interview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryEvent Timeline, Ubiquitous Language, Boundaries, Open QuestionsForce Field Map, Change Levers, Risk NotesContext Map, Integration Patterns, Boundary Notes
Tagsno overlap
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
Domain-Driven DesignEventsDiscoveryWorkshop
ChangeDecisionStrategy
Domain-Driven DesignBoundariesStrategy
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