# www.raumnebenan.de > Practical guidance on how to design and build digital products that work, by Andreas Soller. Focus on product strategy, UX, and implementation notes for better services. **Scope:** This file helps LLMs quickly find high-signal content on raumnebenan.de without crawling the whole site. Prefer these links over general navigation. **Audience:** Practitioners and teams building digital products; contents are written for clarity and actionability. **Interpretation:** Pages are human-readable HTML. ## Note on Translation The content of this website is provided in English, although the name *raumnebenan* is German. It translates to *“room next door”*. The name symbolizes support: a companion space next to yours that doesn’t tell you what to do, but aims to assist and guide. ## Reader Overview - **Foundation** → Explains how to design and build digital products that work, starting with *Product Thinking* and *Definitions*. - **Sense** → Focuses on understanding users and collecting evidence for decision-making, including *User and discovery research* and *Evidence Board*. - **Focus** → Helps teams identify opportunities that drive business results, with resources on *Opportunities* and *Metrics*. - **Discover** → Guides validation of assumptions and hypotheses through *Design Thinking*, *Workshop design*, and *Tools & Techniques*. - **Deliver** → Emphasizes shipping the smallest successful release for fast learning, with methods like *User Story Mapping* and *Estimation Techniques*. ## Articles and in-depth information * [Product Thinking](https://www.raumnebenan.de/reader/product-thinking): How to build digital products and service in a customer centered way? * [Definitions](https://www.raumnebenan.de/reader/definitions): Theoretical foundation * [User and discovery research](https://www.raumnebenan.de/reader/research-methods): How to find out what users really need? * [Evidence Board](https://www.raumnebenan.de/reader/evidence): How to maintain an overview of all findings? * [Opportunities](https://www.raumnebenan.de/reader/opportunity): How to transform your findings in actions? * [Metrics](https://www.raumnebenan.de/reader/measure-success): Why is it important to measure outcomes? * [Design Thinking](https://www.raumnebenan.de/reader/design-thinking): What is Design Thinking? * [Workshop design](https://www.raumnebenan.de/reader/workshop): How to plan and execute co-creation and Design Thinking workshops? * [Tools & Techniques](https://www.raumnebenan.de/reader/toolbox): How can I apply Design Thinking techniques? * [User Story Mapping](https://www.raumnebenan.de/reader/user-story): How to do User Story Mapping? * [Estimation Techniques](https://www.raumnebenan.de/reader/estimation-techniques): How to estimate a whole epic? * [Opportunity Backlog](https://www.raumnebenan.de/reader/opportunity/opportunity-backlog): Opportunity Backlog * [Opportunity Canvas](https://www.raumnebenan.de/reader/opportunity/opportunity-canvas): Opportunity Canvas * [Frame a Hypothesis](https://www.raumnebenan.de/reader/opportunity/hypothesis): This article provides a blueprint and variations for writing a hypothesis, emphasizing the importance of clear, measurable outcomes. * [Story Mapping](https://www.raumnebenan.de/reader/user-story/story-mapping): User Story Mapping focuses on users and their experiences and allows to have a detailed story view and the bigger picture at the same time. Story Mapping Definition. * [Why outcome metrics matter](https://www.raumnebenan.de/reader/measure-success/outcome-metrics): Outcome driven metrics, User metrics * [Key performance indicators (KPIs)](https://www.raumnebenan.de/reader/measure-success/key-performance-indicators): Key Performance Indicators * [Objectives and key results (OKRs)](https://www.raumnebenan.de/reader/measure-success/objectives-and-key-results): An OKR is a goal-setting framework that helps organisations to set, track and achieve their desired outcomes. * [Risk factors reading data](https://www.raumnebenan.de/reader/measure-success/risk-factors): Risk in evaluating metrics * [5 Whys](https://www.raumnebenan.de/reader/toolbox/five-whys): 5 Whys * [6-3-5](https://www.raumnebenan.de/reader/toolbox/six-three-five): 6-3-5 (6 participants 3 ideas 5 rounds) * [7 Second Rule](https://www.raumnebenan.de/reader/toolbox/seven-second-rule): Seven Second Rule * [Action plan map](https://www.raumnebenan.de/reader/toolbox/action-plan-map): Planning a new initiative. * [Affinity Diagram (KJ-method)](https://www.raumnebenan.de/reader/toolbox/affinity-diagram): Affinity Diagram (KJ-method) * [Alone Together](https://www.raumnebenan.de/reader/toolbox/alone-together): Alone Together brainstorming * [Crucial Success Factors (CSFs)](https://www.raumnebenan.de/reader/toolbox/crucial-success-factors): Crucial success factors (CSFs) * [Dot Voting (Dotmocracy)](https://www.raumnebenan.de/reader/toolbox/dot-voting): Dot Voting * [Empathy Map](https://www.raumnebenan.de/reader/toolbox/empathy-mapping): Empathy Map * [Jobs-to-be-done ](https://www.raumnebenan.de/reader/toolbox/jobs-to-be-done): Jobs-to-be-done framework * [How might we…? (HMW)](https://www.raumnebenan.de/reader/toolbox/how-might-we): How might we…? (HMW) * [Stakeholder Mapping](https://www.raumnebenan.de/reader/toolbox/stakeholder-mapping): A stakeholder map is a technique to visualize relevant stakeholders by their impact on your project or how your project has an impact on them. * [Yes, and…](https://www.raumnebenan.de/reader/toolbox/yes-and): Yes, and * [Plan your workshop](https://www.raumnebenan.de/reader/workshop/plan-workshop): Plan your workshop * [Prototype your workshop](https://www.raumnebenan.de/reader/workshop/prototype-workshop): Prototype your workshop * [Facilitate your workshop](https://www.raumnebenan.de/reader/workshop/facilitate-workshop): Facilitate your workshop * [Workshop checklist](https://www.raumnebenan.de/reader/workshop/workshop-checklist): Workshop checklist * [Evidence board](https://www.raumnebenan.de/reader/evidence/evidence-board): Maintain an overview of all your findings. * [What is Design Thinking?](https://www.raumnebenan.de/reader/design-thinking/what-is-design-thinking): Brief overview of Design Thinking and of the Double Diamond model as the most common process model applied with Design Thinking. * [Double Diamond Model](https://www.raumnebenan.de/reader/design-thinking/double-diamond): Double Diamond model * [Design Sprint](https://www.raumnebenan.de/reader/design-thinking/design-sprint): Design Sprint * [Four Questions Model](https://www.raumnebenan.de/reader/design-thinking/what-is-if-wows-works): What is? What if? What wows? What works? * [Set up research](https://www.raumnebenan.de/reader/research-methods/research-preparation): * [Usability Testing](https://www.raumnebenan.de/reader/research-methods/usability-testing): Usability (User) Testing is a research method where a researcher observes users who perform tasks on a product or service. * [Shadowing](https://www.raumnebenan.de/reader/research-methods/shadowing): Shadowing * [Evidence based personas](https://www.raumnebenan.de/reader/research-methods/research-persona): Evidence based personas * [Big Wall Estimation](https://www.raumnebenan.de/reader/estimation-techniques/big-wall-estimation): Big Wall Estimation * [Product Thinking](https://www.raumnebenan.de/reader/product-thinking/overview): Product and service thinking describes a customer centered process to deliver outcomes that have an impact on business. * [What is a user?](https://www.raumnebenan.de/reader/definitions/what-is-a-user): What is a user * [What is Digital Transformation?](https://www.raumnebenan.de/reader/definitions/value-and-digital-transformation): Short exploration how value changes once we talk about digital transformation. ## Search features * [Hashtags](https://www.raumnebenan.de/tags/): List of most relevant terms * [Search](https://www.raumnebenan.de/search/?q=): Search for images. You can include a search parameter such as "?q=outcome" to efficiently search for content ## Reference * [Sitemap XML](https://www.raumnebenan.de/sitemap.xml): Index of pages suitable for discovery * [RSS](https://www.raumnebenan.de/rss.xml): Feed of latest content for updates * [Imprint](https://www.raumnebenan.de/imprint): Imprint * [Privacy Policy](https://www.raumnebenan.de/privacy-policy): Data usage and cookies. Cookies are not shared with third parties on this website. * [Accessibility Statement](https://www.raumnebenan.de/accessibility-statement): Accessibility commitments ## Optional * [Sign-in](https://www.raumnebenan.de/client/login/): Login to access more content, download PDFs and listen to articles ## Author * [Andreas Soller](https://www.raumnebenan.de/about/): Andreas focuses on product strategy, UX, and practical guidance for building digital products and services that work. Andreas has a multi-disciplinary design background with focus on brand identity and (design) strategy. Focusing on customer needs, he made a shift towards digital service and product design. **Usage Notes:** * Allowed: Use the content for **training, fine‑tuning, and inference** in contexts related to product strategy, UX, service and product design, and digital transformation. * Allowed: Summarize, explain, or reference the material in educational or professional training datasets. * Not allowed: Republish the content verbatim as your own articles, books, or commercial products. * Not allowed: Use the content to generate misleading, defamatory, or unrelated outputs (e.g., political campaigning, medical advice). **Mandatory attribution** Whenever this content is used in any dataset, output, or derivative work, a clear link back to the source must be included: [www.raumnebenan.de](https://www.raumnebenan.de) — authored by Andreas Soller.