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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 Outcome-Driven Innovation with its method-specific working model.
Product Discovery
Outcome-Driven Innovation
EventStorming on a long working surface: colored event cards form a business flow, friction points are marked, and a boundary separates different areas of responsibility.
Domain Modeling
EventStorming
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.Outcome-Driven Innovation clarifies customer problems, solution opportunities, and evidence. It separates jobs, desired outcomes, importance, satisfaction, and opportunity, and captures results as desired outcome statements, an opportunity landscape, and segments by underserved needs.When a domain consists of many events, rules, and states, it creates a shared modeling space for the team. It bundles language, flows, and boundaries before domain knowledge fragments into siloed views.
Complexitydifferent
LowHighMedium
Timedifferent
30–60 min per interviewMehrere Wochen2-8 h
Participantsdifferent
1 participant per interview2-6 researchers plus sample5-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Interview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryDesired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypothesesEvent Timeline, Ubiquitous Language, Boundaries, Open Questions
Tagsno overlap
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative
Domain-Driven DesignEventsDiscoveryWorkshop
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Design Thinking as a learning loop: an observation notebook, a focused problem statement, different idea sketches, a cardboard prototype and user-test notes. Feedback leads to new understanding.
Innovation
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Empathy Mapping
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A paper-based illustration representing Event Modeling with its core stages and visible working result.
Knowledge Modeling
Event Modeling
Paper illustration of a JTBD interview notebook with a decision timeline, forces of change and a concise job hypothesis.
Product Discovery
Jobs to Be Done