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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 Opportunity Scoring with its method-specific working model.
Product Discovery
Opportunity Scoring
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
Empathy Mapping
UX Research
Empathy Mapping
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 opportunities need ranking by their effect, it makes importance and satisfaction directly comparable. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as an opportunity-score table and top outcomes.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.When a lot is assumed about a target group but little is seen jointly, empathy mapping makes knowledge and gaps directly comparable. The picture also shows which assumptions hold up and where evidence is missing.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
30–60 min per interview60-120 min2-8 h30–60 min
Participantsdifferent
1 participant per interview3-65-124-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Interview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryOpportunity Score Table, Top OutcomesEvent Timeline, Ubiquitous Language, Boundaries, Open QuestionsEmpathy Map, Assumptions List, Research Gaps
Tagsno overlap
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
PrioritizationDiscoveryOutcomesNeeds
Domain-Driven DesignEventsDiscoveryWorkshop
SynthesisQualitativeWorkshop
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