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Visual Management workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Operations
Visual Management
Paper illustration for Contextual Inquiry.
UX Research
Contextual Inquiry
Purposedifferent
With high tempo and many parallel topics, the method makes status, deviations, and priorities visible at a glance. It reduces search effort and prevents what matters from getting lost in daily work.When work processes are known only from accounts and the real context stays hidden, Contextual Inquiry makes behavior at the workplace visible. Observation and follow-up questions together show how people actually work, get interrupted, and improvise.
Complexitydifferent
LowMedium
Timedifferent
Ongoing1-3 Wochen
Participantsdifferent
1-204-12 Beobachtungen
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Visual Board, Status Indicators, Exception CuesField Notes, Workflow Insights, Pain Points
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SignalsOperationsVisual management
UX researchObservationContext
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Paper illustration of a review with planned work, actual event sequence, comparison, and assigned improvement actions.
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