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| Criterion |  UX Research User Interviews |  Facilitation Nominal Group Technique |  Facilitation Mind Mapping |  Facilitation Dot Voting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 loud voices could dominate a round, Nominal Group Technique protects individual thinking time from group effects. It collects ideas separately first and only then enables shared weighting. | 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 workshop has produced too many options and the group needs to condense quickly, dot voting makes preferences visible in a short time. It bundles individual votes into a solid signal for the next selection. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 30–60 min per interview | 60-120 min | 15-45 min | 5-15 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1 participant per interview | 5-12 | 1-10 | 3-20 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Interview Notes, Themes, Insight Summary | Ranked Ideas, Clarified Options, Group Priority | Mind Map, Topic Clusters, Open Questions | Ranked list, Consensus signal, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery | FacilitationPrioritizationVotingInclusion | BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation | FacilitationVotingConsensusPrioritization |