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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 of Hypothesis Prioritization Canvas with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Product Discovery
Hypothesis Prioritization Canvas
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 many hypotheses compete for attention, it brings order to their learning sequence and importance. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a prioritization canvas and a hypothesis backlog.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumMedium
Timedifferent
30–60 min per interview1-2 h Setup, laufend60-90 min
Participantsdifferent
1 participant per interview2-63-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Interview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryOpportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning LogPrioritization Canvas, Hypothesis Backlog
Tags1 shared
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity
ExperimentsPrioritizationDiscoveryHypothesis
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Product Discovery
Experiment Canvas
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UX Design
Lean UX Canvas
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Product Discovery
Opportunity Interview
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Product Discovery
Opportunity Scoring