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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 a Lean Canvas with nine fields, notes, and one highlighted learning risk.
Product Strategy
Lean Canvas
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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.When an early product bet still has too many open points, it brings target group, problem, and assumptions into a single view. It condenses the idea so core risks become nameable.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
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Timedifferent
30–60 min per interview45-90 min1-3 Tage
Participantsdifferent
1 participant per interview1-6Internes Team
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Interview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryLean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment BacklogPersona Profiles, Needs Summary, Scenario Notes
Tagsno overlap
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model
ResearchCustomerSynthesis
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