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| Criterion | ![]() UX Research User Interviews | ![]() Agile Starfish Retrospective |
|---|---|---|
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 improvement options need to be sorted more finely than just start and stop, it brings observations into clear kinds of action. This makes visible what should be done more, less, newly, or continued. |
Complexitysame | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 30–60 min per interview | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1 participant per interview | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Interview Notes, Themes, Insight Summary | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments |
Tagsno overlap | QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam |
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