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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 for Knowledge Mapping.
Knowledge Modeling
Knowledge Mapping
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.Knowledge Mapping makes knowledge, gaps, and transfer paths visible across a field. It fits when expertise should not just exist but also be findable and transferable.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumMedium
Timedifferent
30–60 min per interview2-8 h1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
1 participant per interview5-123-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Interview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryEvent Timeline, Ubiquitous Language, Boundaries, Open QuestionsKnowledge Map, Critical Knowledge Areas, Transfer Plan
Tagsno overlap
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
Domain-Driven DesignEventsDiscoveryWorkshop
KnowledgeMappingRisk
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Paper illustration of an assumption matrix with prioritized test cards
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Assumption Surfacing
Paper illustration of a Concept Map with concepts and labelled links
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A paper-based illustration representing Domain Storytelling with its core stages and visible working result.
Knowledge Modeling
Domain Storytelling
Empathy Mapping
UX Research
Empathy Mapping