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Paper illustration of two people facing each other, speech bubbles and an open interview notebook.
UX Research
User Interviews
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment 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.Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as a RAID Log and a source for status reporting.When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowMedium
Timedifferent
30–60 min per interview30 min Setup, dann laufend1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
1 participant per interview1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone4-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Interview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryRAID Log, Status Report SourceAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions
Tagsno overlap
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
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Facilitation
Stakeholder Salience Model
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Power Interest Grid
Paper illustration for Problem Framing Workshop.
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Problem Framing Workshop