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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 two user profile cards with a goal, behavior evidence, and an open research question.
UX Research
Personas
Paper illustration for Decision Framing Workshop.
Decision Making
Decision Framing Workshop
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 target groups stay too vague and teams talk about the same people differently, personas create a shared, solid picture of usage. Condensed profiles make needs, contexts, and differences tangible enough for decisions.When a decision is poorly framed, even good answers deliver little value. A Decision Framing Workshop sharpens the problem, goal, and boundaries before the actual weighing begins.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
30–60 min per interview45-120 min1-3 Tage60-120 min
Participantsdifferent
1 participant per interview3-8Internes Team4-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Interview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryOption Frames, Assumption Notes, Comparable Shortlist, Decision InputsPersona Profiles, Needs Summary, Scenario NotesDecision Frame, Decision Question, Criteria List, Evidence Plan
Tagsno overlap
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
OptionsDecision framingStrategyComparison
ResearchCustomerSynthesis
Decision framingAlignmentCriteriaOptions
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