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Criterion
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UX Research
User Interviews
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Operations
Fault Tree Analysis
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Product Strategy
DIBB
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 critical top event with several possible triggers, the method logically models failure paths. It makes visible which combinations of conditions can lead to damage.DIBB helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities by making the logic behind a decision explicit. It captures results as a DIBB document, belief list, bet list, and learning report.
Complexitydifferent
LowHighLow
Timedifferent
30–60 min per interview2-6 h1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
1 participant per interview3-82-8
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Interview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryFault Tree, Critical Paths, Cause Hypotheses, Control ActionsDIBB document, Belief list, Bet list, Learning report
Tagsno overlap
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
RiskRoot causeSafety
StrategyDecisionAssumptionsHypothesis
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Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
Affinity Diagramming
UX Research
Affinity Diagramming
Paper illustration of a calm four-quadrant Assumption Map with hypothesis cards and emphasis on important assumptions with little evidence.
Product Discovery
Assumption Mapping
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Operations
Barrier Analysis