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Criterion
Paper illustration of two people facing each other, speech bubbles and an open interview notebook.
UX Research
User Interviews
Paper illustration of Family Tree Analysis with its method-specific working model.
Operations
Family Tree 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.For a series of incidents with a similar pattern, the method arranges individual events as branches of a common origin. It makes visible which conditions keep recurring.
Complexitydifferent
LowMedium
Timedifferent
30–60 min per interview2-4 h
Participantsdifferent
1 participant per interview2-6
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Interview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryFamily Tree Diagram, Pattern Notes, Systemic Measures
Tagsno overlap
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
Root causePatternsIncidentSystemic
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