Research

Problem Scenarios

Problem Scenarios are real, imagined, and hypothesized problems and needs that particular people experience or are hypothesized to experience in a problem space a unit of analysis in customer discovery, an empirical research method. Key Concepts: Customer Discovery Interviews; Design; Design Thinking; Lean Product Development; Mixed Research Methods; Problem Definition; Problem Scenarios; Rhetoric; Usability; Venture ...

Design Thinking

Design Thinking is a human-centered, empirical research method that employs user-centric methods (e.g., customer discovery interviews, focus groups, usability studies) to solve problems and develop products and applications that people want. People (e.g., founders, product managers, developers, engineers) engage in design thinking when they set aside their egos and endeavor to listen to consumers and ...

Venture Design

Venture Design may refer to Key Terms: customer discovery; design thinking; human-centric design; informal research method Alexander Cowan visualizes Venture Design as a rhetorical, recursive process that consists of six major activities: Resources

Customer Discovery

Customer Discovery is Key Concepts: Design; Design Thinking; Lean Product Development; Mixed Research Methods; Problem Definition; Problem Scenarios; Rhetoric; Venture Design Why Does Customer Discovery Matter? Customer Discovery is wildly popular in the startup community. This methodology traces its roots to Investigators (e.g, founders/developers/marketing consultants/business consultants) engage in customer discovery in order to understand a ...

The Business Model Canvas

The Business Model Canvas is an invention tool that is used by entrepreneurs to develop business propositions (aka business theses) an heuristic a model of core business processes a drafting tool an empirical method you can use to investigate the viability of business opportunities and entrepreneurial processes. Venture Design is a model of entrepreneurial processes ...

Post-Colonial Criticism

Post-Colonial Criticism is a research method, a type of textual research, that literary critics use to interpret texts a genre of discourse employed by literary critics used to share the results of their interpretive efforts. Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin, authors of The Empire Writes Back (1989), are three key figures who significantly ...

Structuralist Criticism

Structuralist Criticism is Key Terms: Dialectic; Hermeneutics; Semiotics; Text & Intertextuality; Tone Key Terms Definitions Sign the basic unit of Saussurean linguistics, a physical entity consisting of a signifier (an acoustic image) and a signified (a concept); a sign is said to be arbitrary because a logical relationship between the signifier and signified does not ...

Russian Formalism and New Criticism

Russian Formalism and New Criticism is a research method, a type of textual research, that literary critics use to interpret texts a genre of discourse employed by literary critics used to share the results of their interpretive efforts. Key Terms Definitions Form a genre or literary type (the lyric form, the drama form); the principle ...

Reader-Response Criticism

Reader-Response Criticism is a research method, a type of textual research, that literary critics use to interpret texts a genre of discourse employed by literary critics used to share the results of their interpretive efforts. Key Terms: Dialectic; Hermeneutics; Semiotics; Text & Intertextuality; Tone Key Terms Definitions Incomplete Text a text that remains incomplete because ...

Psychological Criticism

Psychological Criticism is a research method, a type of textual research, that literary critics use to interpret texts a genre of discourse employed by literary critics used to share the results of their interpretive efforts. Psychological criticism, or psychoanalytic criticism, took off in popularity in the early decades of the twentieth century. Sigmund Freud, who ...