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UX Research
User Interviews
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Operations
Fault Tree Analysis
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Product Discovery
Experiment Canvas
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.When experiments become unreadable after the fact, it arranges hypothesis, signal, and learning goal on a single canvas. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Completed Experiment Canvas and a Success Metric.
Complexitydifferent
LowHighLow
Timedifferent
30–60 min per interview2-6 h30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
1 participant per interview3-81-5
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Interview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryFault Tree, Critical Paths, Cause Hypotheses, Control ActionsCompleted Experiment Canvas, Success Metric
Tagsno overlap
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
RiskRoot causeSafety
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis
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Product Discovery
Test Card
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Product Discovery
Assumption Mapping
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Product Discovery
Fake Door Test
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Product Discovery
Hypothesis Prioritization Canvas