Affinity diagramming is primarily used by teams for organizing:
- Observations or ideas from a research study
- Ideas that surface in design-ideation meetings
- Ideas about UX strategy and vision

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Affinity Diagramming refers to the process of organizing related facts, ideas, or observations into distinct categories.

Affinity Diagramming

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"Affinity Diagramming for Collaboratively Sorting UX Findings and Design Ideas" (Kara Pernice)

- Before the meeting
- Generating sticky notes
- Organizing the sticky notes into groups

Steps in the Affinity Diagramming Process

- For ideation workshops, ideas will often be sorted by the team after they are generated, all within the same workshop
- For organizing research findings, team members can choose to sort the notes after each participant's interview/test session and again after all the sessions are done  

Variations in the Affinity Diagramming Process

Uses of Affinity Diagramming

- Software (CAQDAS)
- Journaling
- Affinity Diagram Techniques 


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