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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 a branching tree with an outcome at its root, customer opportunities, solution options and small experiment cards.
Product Discovery
Opportunity Solution Tree
Paper illustration for Domain Context Map
Domain Modeling
Domain Context Map
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 discovery keeps swinging between goals, ideas, and learning loops, it creates clear steering logic. It connects the desired outcome, opportunities, and experiments into a legible structure.When a domain model and its associated contexts need to be thought through together, it creates a shared overview. It connects the business view and organizational boundary into a readable whole.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumMedium
Timedifferent
30–60 min per interview1-2 h Setup, laufend1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
1 participant per interview2-63-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Interview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryOpportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning LogDomain Context Map, Boundary Notes, Ownership Map
Tagsno overlap
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity
Domain-Driven DesignContextBoundaries
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Paper illustration for Opportunity Interview
Product Discovery
Opportunity Interview
A paper-based illustration representing Bounded Context Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
Domain Modeling
Bounded Context Canvas
Context Map workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Domain Modeling
Context Map
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