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Criterion
Paper illustration of two people facing each other, speech bubbles and an open interview notebook.
UX Research
User Interviews
A paper-based illustration representing Service Blueprint with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
Service Blueprinting
Paper illustration of two user profile cards with a goal, behavior evidence, and an open research question.
UX Research
Personas
A paper-based illustration representing Customer Journey Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
UX Design
Customer Journey Canvas
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.When a service experience is spread across several touchpoints, it brings frontstage and backstage together. It shows where user contact and internal responsibility must fit.When target groups stay too vague and teams talk about the same people differently, personas create a shared, solid picture of usage. Condensed profiles make needs, contexts, and differences tangible enough for decisions.When a journey needs to be understood across several phases, it arranges experience, touchpoints, and opportunities into one picture. It makes gaps and friction along the user path clear.
Complexitydifferent
LowHighMediumMedium
Timedifferent
30–60 min per interview0.5-2 Tage1-3 Tage1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
1 participant per interview6-12Internes Team3-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Interview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryService Blueprint, Fail Points, Ownership MapPersona Profiles, Needs Summary, Scenario NotesCustomer Journey Canvas, Pain Points, Experience Opportunities
Tagsno overlap
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
Service designOperationsJourneyBlueprint
ResearchCustomerSynthesis
JourneyCustomerService designCanvas
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