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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 matrix with seven SCAMPER rows, operator prompts and variations for a course portal.
Innovation
SCAMPER
Paper illustration of Design Charrette with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Design Charrette
Paper illustration of the Morphological Analysis working structure.
Innovation
Morphological Analysis
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.For an existing solution under pressure to change, the method deliberately opens space for systematic variants. It directs attention to rebuilding, combining, and repurposing rather than only new basic ideas. This produces concrete evolution paths for products, offerings, or workflows.In a tightly timed design process with many participants, the method pools several lines of thinking in a short time. It brings parallel design energy without letting the discussion tip into endless coordination. This quickly produces solid directions for architecture or space.For a search for solutions with many degrees of freedom, a grid emerges for systematic combinations. The method separates features, variants, and exclusion criteria, so the space gets explored deliberately.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowMediumMedium
Timedifferent
30–60 min per interview30-60 minHalber Tag bis mehrere Tage1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
1 participant per interview2-1010-502-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Interview Notes, Themes, Insight SummarySCAMPER Idea List, Concept Shortlist, Variation NotesSketches and Concepts, Consolidated Solution Sketch, Prioritized DirectionMorphological Box, Concept Combinations, Idea Shortlist
Tagsno overlap
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
BrainstormingIdeationCreativityReframingInnovation
BrainstormingWorkshopCollaborationIdeation
IdeationInnovationCreativity
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