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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 Kanban board with To Discuss, Discussing and Discussed columns, topic cards, votes and timer.
Facilitation
Lean Coffee
Paper illustration of a Learning Card with four fields for hypothesis, observation, insight, and action.
Product Discovery
Learning Card
Paper illustration of Experiment Canvas with a method-specific labelled workspace.
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.When a group without a fixed agenda needs to get into useful conversations quickly, Lean Coffee structures the start around interests rather than a presentation. The group itself negotiates which topics get time first and which wait.The Learning Card connects traceable test results to a reasoned next action while keeping the limits of the insight visible.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.
Complexitysame
LowLowLowLow
Timedifferent
30–60 min per interview30-90 min25-40 min30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
1 participant per interview3-201-51-5
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Interview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryPrioritized Topics, Discussion Notes, Action ItemsLearning Card with evidence and next actionCompleted Experiment Canvas, Success Metric
Tagsno overlap
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
FacilitationAutonomyDialogue
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryLearning
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis
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