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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 illustration for World Café.
Facilitation
World Café
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Product Discovery
Learning Card
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 group needs to connect many viewpoints in a short time, World Café creates a calm alternation between closeness and rotation. It sets thinking in motion without forcing the conversation into full-plenary rigidity.The Learning Card connects traceable test results to a reasoned next action while keeping the limits of the insight visible.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumLow
Timedifferent
30–60 min per interview60-180 min25-40 min
Participantsdifferent
1 participant per interview12-100+1-5
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Interview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryTable Notes, Emergent Themes, Shared QuestionsLearning Card with evidence and next action
Tagsno overlap
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
FacilitationDialogueLarge groupSensemaking
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryLearning
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Product Discovery
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Paper illustration for Fishbowl Discussion.
Facilitation
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