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Visual Management workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Operations
Visual Management
Paper illustration of two user profile cards with a goal, behavior evidence, and an open research question.
UX Research
Personas
Paper illustration for Opportunity Interview
Product Discovery
Opportunity Interview
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 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 opportunities are still hidden behind signals of need, it structures conversations around needs and obstacles. It looks for patterns that lead to new product opportunities.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumMedium
Timedifferent
Ongoing1-3 Tage30-60 min je Interview
Participantsdifferent
1-20Internes Team5-12 Interviews
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Visual Board, Status Indicators, Exception CuesPersona Profiles, Needs Summary, Scenario NotesInterview Notes, Opportunity Themes, Customer Quotes
Tagsno overlap
SignalsOperationsVisual management
ResearchCustomerSynthesis
DiscoveryInterviewsOpportunityCustomer
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Paper illustration of two people facing each other, speech bubbles and an open interview notebook.
UX Research
User Interviews
Paper illustration of a branching tree with an outcome at its root, customer opportunities, solution options and small experiment cards.
Product Discovery
Opportunity Solution Tree
Paper illustration for Problem Interview
Product Discovery
Problem Interview
A3 Problem-Solving workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Operations
A3 Problem Solving