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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 for Option Framing.
Decision Making
Option Framing
Paper illustration of an assumption matrix with prioritized test cards
Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
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Product Strategy
DIBB
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.Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it.DIBB helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities by making the logic behind a decision explicit. It captures results as a DIBB document, belief list, bet list, and learning report.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumLowLow
Timedifferent
30–60 min per interview45-120 min45-90 min1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
1 participant per interview3-82-82-8
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Interview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryOption Frames, Assumption Notes, Comparable Shortlist, Decision InputsAssumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning PlanDIBB document, Belief list, Bet list, Learning report
Tagsno overlap
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
OptionsDecision framingStrategyComparison
AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery
StrategyDecisionAssumptionsHypothesis
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