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Criterion
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UX Research
User Interviews
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Delivery
RAID Log
Paper illustration of a branching tree with an outcome at its root, customer opportunities, solution options and small experiment cards.
Product Discovery
Opportunity Solution Tree
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 discovery keeps swinging between goals, ideas, and learning loops, it creates clear steering logic. It connects the desired outcome, opportunities, and experiments into a legible structure.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowMedium
Timedifferent
30–60 min per interview30 min Setup, dann laufend1-2 h Setup, laufend
Participantsdifferent
1 participant per interview1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone2-6
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Interview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryRAID Log, Status Report SourceOpportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log
Tagsno overlap
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity
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Product Discovery
Opportunity Interview
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Product Discovery
Assumption Mapping
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Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
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Architecture
ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method)