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Criterion
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UX Research
User Interviews
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Facilitation
Mind Mapping
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Facilitation
Problem Framing Workshop
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 topic is still unclear and too many thoughts surface at once, Mind Mapping creates an open surface for ordering them. It makes connections, subtopics, and starting points visible without fixing them too early.When a team works on symptoms but the real question stays fuzzy, a Problem Framing Workshop sharpens the view of the right problem. It separates observation, interpretation, and target picture from each other.
Complexitysame
LowLowLow
Timedifferent
30–60 min per interview15-45 min60-120 min
Participantsdifferent
1 participant per interview1-104-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Interview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryMind Map, Topic Clusters, Open QuestionsProblem Statement, Scope Boundaries, Assumption List, Next Analysis Questions
Tagsno overlap
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation
FacilitationAlignmentDiscovery
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3-Circle Venn Diagram
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Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
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Innovation
Brainwriting
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Facilitation
Consensus Workshop