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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 Starbursting with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Starbursting
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.Helps clarify ideas, open questions, and testable next steps in concrete terms. It opens the thinking space, collects ideas, and leads to testable options. The result is captured as a star-shaped question map, question list, and assumption list.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumLow
Timedifferent
30–60 min per interview2-8 h30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
1 participant per interview5-123-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Interview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryEvent Timeline, Ubiquitous Language, Boundaries, Open QuestionsStar-Shaped Question Map, Question List, Assumption List
Tags1 shared
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
Domain-Driven DesignEventsDiscoveryWorkshop
BrainstormingIdeationWorkshopDiscovery
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Brainstorming
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Innovation
Design Charrette
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Empathy Mapping
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