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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 two user profile cards with a goal, behavior evidence, and an open research question.
UX Research
Personas
A paper-based illustration representing Customer Journey Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
Customer Journey 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 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 journey needs to be understood across several phases, it arranges experience, touchpoints, and opportunities into one picture. It makes gaps and friction along the user path clear.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumMedium
Timedifferent
30–60 min per interview1-3 Tage1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
1 participant per interviewInternes Team3-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Interview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryPersona Profiles, Needs Summary, Scenario NotesCustomer Journey Canvas, Pain Points, Experience Opportunities
Tags1 shared
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
ResearchCustomerSynthesis
JourneyCustomerService designCanvas
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Affinity Diagramming
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Affinity Diagramming
Paper illustration of a journey map with four connected phases, several experience lanes and a point marked for closer investigation.
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Empathy Mapping
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Empathy Mapping
Paper illustration of Lean UX Canvas with its method-specific working model.
UX Design
Lean UX Canvas