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UX Research
User Interviews
A hypothetical failure makes concrete risks, signals, and fitting mitigations visible.
Decision Making
Pre-Mortem
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 initiatives with many uncertainties, planning quickly turns too optimistic. A pre-mortem makes the expected failure visible in advance and sharpens the view of causes, gaps, and countermeasures.
Complexitysame
LowLow
Timedifferent
30–60 min per interview20–45 min
Participantsdifferent
1 participant per interviewSmall cross-functional group
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Interview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryRisk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log
Tagsno overlap
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
RiskDecisionFailurePlanning
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