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UX Research
User Interviews
Paper notes move from an inbox to action, project and calendar collections.
Operations
Getting Things Done
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UX Research
Personas
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.With many open commitments and ideas in daily life, a reliable external storage system emerges. The method relieves the mind so priority and context don't have to compete in memory.When target groups stay too vague and teams talk about the same people differently, personas create a shared, solid picture of usage. Condensed profiles make needs, contexts, and differences tangible enough for decisions.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumMedium
Timedifferent
30–60 min per interview1-2 h Setup, laufend1-3 Tage
Participantsdifferent
1 participant per interview1Internes Team
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Interview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryAction Lists, Project List, Review RoutinePersona Profiles, Needs Summary, Scenario Notes
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QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution
ResearchCustomerSynthesis
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