The visible clustering of observations and insights into meaningful categories and relationships
- Designers capture research insights, observations, concerns, or requirements on individual sticky notes.
- Rather than grouping notes into predefined categories, specific details are clustered, which then give rise to named category themes based on shared affinity of similar intent, issues, or problems.
- Making tacit knowledge or information buried in transcripts visible facilitates research synthesis.
- Affinity diagramming from contextual inquiry is based on interviews and observations of users in the field, synthesizing human stories.
- Affinity diagramming from usability testing documents observations and quotes of ...