1-on-1 interview
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A one-on-one interview is a conversation between a researcher and a participant in a face-to-face situation.
4 HOURS - 1 DAY
Actors map
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The Actors map represents the relationship between stakeholders. It’s a view of the service/ system and its cont ...
2 HOURS - 4 HOURS
Backcasting
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Backcasting is a method for planning the actions necessary to reach desired future goals. This method is often ap ...
2 HOURS - 4 HOURS
Behavioral lenses
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Behavioral Lenses focus on understanding the behavior of your target group and creating strategies to design for b ...
4 HOURS - 1 DAY
Boundary shifting
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Boundary shifting is a way to discover solutions and features outside of the boundaries of the system related to t ...
1 DAY - 2 DAYS
Brain writing
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Brainwriting is essentially the same as brainstorming. Ideas are generated by asking people to write them down ins ...
2 HOURS - 4 HOURS
Break up/Love letter
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Instead of directly asking people what they like or don't like about a particular brand, product or service, this ...
1 HOUR - 2 HOURS
Clickable Prototype
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A clickable prototype is a prototype that looks like and may work just like the finished product. It simulates the ...
1 DAY - 2 DAYS
Co-discovery
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Two participants perform an activity and help each other as they would naturally. They are encouraged to explain w ...
2 HOURS - 1 DAY
Cognitive map
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A cognitive map is a mental map of an environment. Participants map a physical or virtual environment by what they ...
1 DAY - 2 DAYS
Collage
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A collage involves sticking images or words on to a large piece of paper, in order to group ideas, personal experi ...
2 HOURS - 1 DAY
Cultural probes
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Cultural probes, or design probes are a window into the life of the user. Probes or information gathering packages ...
1 WEEK - 2 WEEKS
Customer experience map
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Customer experience mapping is a method of documenting and visualizing the experience a customer has as they use t ...
4 HOURS - 1 DAY
Dark side
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The dark side turns your challenge into a negative one, forcing you to look at it from a refreshing angle.
1 HOUR - 4HOURS
Day in the life
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A study in which the designer observes the participant in the location and context of their usual activities, obse ...
1 DAY - 1 WEEK
Design persona
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Following a similar structure of the Persona method, give your design personality by creating a design persona. Th ...
1 HOUR - 2 HOURS
Dot voting
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Dot voting is a collective way of prioritizing and converging on a design solution that uses group voting.
1 HOUR - 2 HOURS
Emoji story
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An Emoji story is a method to interpret collected data by translating it into a story. In the story, you leave out ...
30 MINUTES - 2 HOURS
Emotional journey
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An emotional journey is a visualization that maps and illustrates a user’s emotional experience through the expe ...
2 DAYS - 1 WEEK
Empathy in action
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Empathy in action is a way to help people empathize with, and understand a specific situation that is foreign to t ...
4 HOURS - 1 DAY
Empathy map
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An empathy map is a tool to help a design team to empathize with the people they are designing for. You can make a ...
4 HOURS - 1 DAY
Focus group
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Focus groups are group discussions of 6 to 12 people, led by a moderator. This method is used to get feedback abou ...
4 HOURS - 1 DAY
Future workshop
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Future workshop is a method that aims to have stakeholders design their desired future, avoiding constraints impos ...
1 DAY - 1 WEEK
Harris profile
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A Harris Profile is a way to visualize the strengths and weaknesses of different design concepts.
2 HOURS - 4 HOURS
Heuristic evaluation
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Also known as expert evaluation. It is used to identify user problems. Experts analyze whether a user interface fo ...
2 HOURS - 1 DAY
Infographic
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An infographic visualizes information. The aim is to represent complex information in a clear way. It can also be ...
2 HOURS - 1 DAY
Literature review
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A detailed review of books, articles, dissertations, conference proceedings, and other written material relevant t ...
1 DAY - 1 WEEK
Lotus blossom
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The lotus blossom method is a creativity exercise. It is a framework for idea generation, starting from one centra ...
2 HOURS - 4 HOURS
Mash-up
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The Mash-up brainstorm technique randomly combines different categories into one concept providing you with a rang ...
1 HOUR - 4HOURS
Mind map
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A mind map is a diagram used to represent a number of ideas or things. Mind maps are methods for analyzinginformat ...
2 HOURS - 4 HOURS
Mobile diary study
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A mobile diary study uses a portable device to capture a person’s experience. Participants create their entries ...
1 WEEK - 2 WEEKS
Moodboard
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A Moodboard is a collage of images, words and/or even samples of materials. It helps you form an emotional image o ...
2 HOURS - 4 HOURS
Morphological chart
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A Morphological chart is a method that splits a product/solution into smaller chunks that can then be analyzed and ...
4 HOURS - 1 DAY
MoSCoW
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MoSCoW is a method that allows the team to prioritize the different features that they will work on. Features are ...
2 HOURS - 4 HOURS
Navigation map
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Navigation maps or Flowcharts are used to depict the way people move through a website or application and gain ins ...
2 HOURS - 4 HOURS
Nine dimensions
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An ethnographic framework to give structure to observations and to ensure the researcher doesn’t miss any import ...
4 HOURS - 1 DAY
Paper prototyping
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Paper prototyping is a quick and cheap way of gaining insights without the need for costly investment. It simulate ...
2 HOURS - 4 HOURS
People Planet Profit
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People Planet Profit is a way to analyse the potential impact that your idea will have from a sustainability persp ...
1 HOUR - 2 HOURS
Persona
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A Persona is an archetypical character that is used to represent a group of possible users. They share common goal ...
4 HOURS - 1 DAY
Photo safari
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Photo safaris are assignments, where users photograph topics that are relevant for the project. This gives clear i ...
1 DAY - 1 WEEK
Problem tree
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A problem tree is a tool to clarify the hierarchy of problems addressed by the team within a design project; it re ...
2 HOURS - 4 HOURS
Prototype for empathy
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Prototype for empathy helps to understand needs and problems that users have when using a prototype. For example ...
2 HOURS - 1 DAY
Research collage
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A collage involves glueing images or words onto paper. It can be used to gain insights on how a group sees particu ...
4 HOURS - 1 DAY
Stakeholders map
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A stakeholders map is used to document key stakeholders. The map is a brief summary of the relationships and can t ...
2 HOURS - 4 HOURS
Storyboard
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Storyboard is a narrative tool derived from cinema. It’s a form of prototyping which communicates each step of a ...
2 HOURS - 1 DAY
Survey
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A survey or questionnaire, is a primary research tool. In most cases it is designed for statistical analysis.
2 HOURS - 1 DAY
The AOKI Method
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The Aoki Method or MBS method is a structured brainstorming method. It requires input from all team members.
2 HOURS - 4 HOURS
The KJ Method
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A brainstorming and prioritizing method that places emphasis on the most important ideas and actions.
2 HOURS - 4 HOURS
Through other eyes
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Designing can take a lot of time. Sometimes, if you look at something too much, you become too fixated. At several ...
2 HOURS - 1 DAY
Venn Diagram
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A Venn diagram or set diagram is a diagram that shows all possible logical relations between a finite collection o ...
2 HOURS - 4 HOURS
Video prototyping
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Video prototyping is a simple way to show new and speculative designs, ideas, scenarios, futures or products. Show ...
1 DAY - 2 WEEKS
ViP (Deconstruct)
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Vision in Product Design aims to design products towards a desired future. As a first step, you have to deconstruc ...
1 DAY - 1 WEEK
ViP (Design)
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Vision in Product Design aims to design towards a desired future in which a product fits. As a second step, you st ...
1 DAY - 1 WEEK
Wireframes
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Wireframes are simplified outlines of all the different elements on a web page. They are used to get feedback on t ...
2 HOURS - 1 DAY
Wizard of Oz
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The Wizard of Oz is a research method where a participant interacts with an interface, system or physical object. ...