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Criterion
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UX Research
User Interviews
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Decision Making
Option Framing
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Product Discovery
Assumption 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.In early decisions, alternatives are often still vague, incomplete, or blended together. Option Framing brings every possibility into a comparable form and makes visible which variant actually fits the question.When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumMedium
Timedifferent
30–60 min per interview45-120 min45-60 min
Participantsdifferent
1 participant per interview3-82-8
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Interview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryOption Frames, Assumption Notes, Comparable Shortlist, Decision InputsAssumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking
Tagsno overlap
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
OptionsDecision framingStrategyComparison
AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation
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Product Discovery
Riskiest Assumption Test
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Decision Making
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Product Discovery
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