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UX Research
User Interviews
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Delivery
RAID Log
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Architecture
Views and Beyond
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.Views and Beyond organizes architecture into several views so no single diagram has to do everything at once. This makes it possible to choose the representation that fits the stakeholder's question.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowMedium
Timedifferent
30–60 min per interview30 min Setup, dann laufend1-3 Tage
Participantsdifferent
1 participant per interview1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone1-4
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Interview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryRAID Log, Status Report SourceArchitecture Views, Cross-view Notes, Rationale
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QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
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