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  • Affinity Diagram
  • Alignment Diagram
  • Axis Mapping
  • Be Your Customer
  • Behavioral Mapping
  • Bet-Cost-Matrix
  • Bodystorming
  • Boundary Shifting
  • Brainstorming
  • Camera Journal
  • Card Sorting
  • Click Dummy
  • Cognitive Map
  • Collaborative Sketching
  • Collage
  • Competitive Product Survey
  • Concept Mapping
  • Content Design and UI Mapping
  • Contextual Inquiry
  • Emotion Map
  • Empathy Tools
  • Event Tree Analysis
  • Extreme User Interview
  • Fast Finish
  • Five Whys
  • Flash It
  • Flow Analysis
  • Focus Groups
  • Imperfect Personas
  • Jobs to be Done
  • Letter to Grandma
  • Mental Models
  • Method 635
  • Moodboard
  • Morphological Charts
  • MoSCoW Voting
  • Object Handling Analysis
  • Observation
  • Osborn Method
  • Paper Prototyping
  • Personal Inventory
  • Personas
  • Pinboard Moderation
  • Predict Next Year's Headline
  • Problem Framing
  • Process Mapping
  • Product Vision Board
  • Prototyping
  • Quick and Dirty Prototyping
  • Random Input
  • Rapid Ethnography
  • Remote Moderated Usability Test
  • Role Playing
  • Scenario Testing
  • Scenarios
  • Semantic Differential
  • Sinus Milieus
  • Steep Analysis
  • Story Cubes
  • Storyboarding
  • Surveys and Questionnaires
  • SWOT Analysis
  • System Usability Scale
  • Try It Yourself
  • Usability Testing
  • Use Case Modelling
  • User Interview
  • UX Thinking
  • Vision Prototype
  • Walt Disney Method
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  • DMF on Twitter
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Analysis49
Conception51
Realization15
Evaluation20

Focus

User42
Ideas34
Data18

Topic

Empathy26
Innovation27
Communication26
Market22
User Group35
Forecast21
Process22
Relation23

Activities

question25
testing13
develop35
design15
evaluate23
arrange13
observe19
combine25
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Affinity Diagram IAK Logo
Sort, structure and organize data, information or individual elements according to relationships and contexts.
Alignment Diagram IAK Logo
Visually combining the user side and the business side
Axis Mapping
Arrange terms or information by relation, similarity, and relationship to each other on an XY axis diagram.
Be Your Customer
The manufacturer or company representative actively puts himself in the position of his own customers in order to describe and uncover their actual needs from his point of view.
Behavioral Mapping
Visual documentation of the positions and routes of persons in a defined area, within a certain period of time.
Bet-Cost-Matrix Blizzable Logo
Technique for evaluating the potential of ideas to generate value in relation to their cost
Bodystorming
Put oneself in the position of someones specific situations with theater or role play to quickly generate ideas or to test developed concepts and products.
Boundary Shifting
Problem boundaries are shifted to find solutions to problems in a broader or another knowledge field.
Brainstorming Blizzable Logo
By spontaneously expressing ideas without rejecting criticism, a large number of ideas for a given problem are developed and collected.
Camera Journal
Visual documentation of user's personal impressions when using a product to reveal strengths and weaknesses.
Card Sorting IAK Logo
Sort concepts into groups in an early project phase, for example to develop logical and user-friendly navigation or menu structures.
Click Dummy
Less to non-functional preliminary stage of a prototype to test usability at an early stage.
Cognitive Map
Test persons outline from their memory a cognitive map of a room to identify its vulnerabilities in relation to the user movement.
Collaborative Sketching
Generate and expand ideas quickly by simultaneously sketching together.
Collage
Visual representation of complex and abstract topics, for a better understanding of the user.
Competitive Product Survey
Collect, compare and evaluate information about similar (competitor) products and competitors.
Concept Mapping
Create a map of terms (mind map) on which knowledge is visualized and structured.
Content Design and UI Mapping IAK Logo
Gather, manage, publish and “display” content independently on any UI
Contextual Inquiry IAK Logo
On-site survey to investigate the activities and needs of users in daily life through observation and interviewing.
Emotion Map IAK Logo
The Emotion Map classifies basic human needs (or values) to the six most important needdrivers.
Empathy Tools IAK Logo
Needs of users with special physical limitations are simulated through the use of different tools.
Event Tree Analysis
Inductive system-analytical method to determine possible consequences of an occurring error in a system.
Extreme User Interview Blizzable Logo
Creative input through atypical interviews with people who are very or very unfamiliar with the core problem.
Fast Finish
A pseudo-final project status is defined to develop a presentable result within an artificially shortened period of time.
Five Whys Blizzable Logo IAK Logo
Ask a person five consecutive questions to recognize their basic attitude and behavior towards a problem or topic.
Flash It Blizzable Logo
Show someone a design without explanation to get fast unfiltered feedback.
Flow Analysis
Display of individual steps of a process or information flow within a process or system.
Focus Groups
Survey of conscious and unconscious attitudes, expectations and attitudes of customers, users or experts towards products.
Imperfect Personas IAK Logo
Personas (and scenarios) are often too perfect. Not human enough. Be raw and avoid blinding yourself with imperfect personas.
Jobs to be Done IAK Logo
People hire a product to get a job done. JTBD uncovers relevant jobs.
Letter to Grandma IAK Logo
Description of the task or the project goal to find out the essence in a nutshell.
Mental Models IAK Logo
Get acquainted with behaviors and customer needs through interviews and use a diagram to show all the steps people take to reach a goal or complete a task.
Method 635 Blizzable Logo IAK Logo
Brainwriting technique for generating new unusual ideas and / or their systematic further development in a group
Moodboard
Visual composition of images and materials to communicate a general impression of an atmosphere, user worlds, moods and visual qualities.
Morphological Charts
Recombine alternative components of a product in a visual representation
MoSCoW Voting Blizzable Logo IAK Logo
Quickly making decisions and prioritizing a large amount of topics without getting lost in details
Object Handling Analysis
Observe and document how a person uses an object or program to detect potential weaknesses.
Observation
Systematic gathering of objectively perceptible facts at the time of their occurrence, for example to detect usability problems.
Osborn Method
Analyze an existing product or process using a predefined questionnaire to develop new perspectives and solutions.
Paper Prototyping
Quickly visualize basic concepts at an early stage and test them for possible usability problems.
Personal Inventory
Documenting the position and nature of personal belongings in the familiar environment of a person (or group of persons) in order to better understand them.
Personas
Modeling the different representative users (user groups) in the form of prototypical fictitious personalities for the requirement-oriented development of a product or an applicati
Pinboard Moderation Blizzable Logo
Development, collection, visualization, organization and evaluation of ideas in a team.
Predict Next Year's Headline
In an early phase of the project, find out where the client sees himself with his company in the future and which product features can then be relevant.
Problem Framing Blizzable Logo IAK Logo
Problem framing is a tool to align stakeholders and develop accurate design solutions and therefore helps to understand the problem per se.
Process Mapping
Mapping a process with all participants and process steps.
Product Vision Board Blizzable Logo IAK Logo
Describe, visualise, and validate your product vision and your product strategy
Prototyping
Create an interactive and (partially) functional digital design dummy of an application to identify problems early and respond to user needs.
Quick and Dirty Prototyping
Available materials are used to illustrate shapes or interactions very quickly
Random Input
By combining words that are not related at first glance, new ideas or solutions to problems are generated.
Rapid Ethnography
Quick collection of ethnographic data to analyze user needs.
Remote Moderated Usability Test Blizzable Logo IAK Logo
Quick and cheap method for usability testing which delivers good information about usage and user behavior
Role Playing
To bring about a change of perspective through a role play, in order to look at topic- or problem-related questions from a different angle.
Scenario Testing
Test the reactions to a described or visualized idea on test persons.
Scenarios
Presenting, communicating and testing the core of an idea within the potential context of use with a comprehensible story.
Semantic Differential
A survey tool to gather the emotional user acceptance of specific products, circumstances or plans.
Sinus Milieus
Sinus milieus are target groups that really exist. It is a model that groups people according to their views of life and ways of life.
Steep Analysis
A strategy tool to map and assess the dependencies of different factors and their consequences within a company or system.
Story Cubes
Haptic and open-ended idea generation using illustrated or labeled cubes to explore relationships and develop ideas.
Storyboarding IAK Logo
Support of a conceptual design, through sketchy graphical representation and description.
Surveys and Questionnaires
Ask specific questions to ask for information about products, behavior and trends from the user.
SWOT Analysis
Situation analysis tool to derive appropriate strategic solution alternatives to achieve the goals.
System Usability Scale
The questionnaire is a “quick and dirty” option to measure usability.
Try It Yourself
A designed product or project draft is used in everyday life and tested on oneself to check for possible sources of error.
Usability Testing Blizzable Logo
Empirical evaluation to check the usability of a software or hardware with the potential users.
Use Case Modelling
Specify the functional requirements and objectives for the development of an application.
User Interview Blizzable Logo
In a personal interview, find out the behavior, problems and wishes of users.
UX Thinking Blizzable Logo IAK Logo
A process model that supports an agile and human-centered approach for planning and executing digital development projects with interdisciplinary teams.
Vision Prototype Blizzable Logo
Linear or interactive sequence of screens or mockups to enthuse customers or potential decision makers for a solution.
Walt Disney Method Blizzable Logo IAK Logo
On the basis of a role play, several people look at and discuss a situation from three different perspectives (roles).

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