I’m working on a UX project for an existing portal with 6 modules. I’ve got the business goals, but I’m stuck on defining the problem statements. The stakeholders just gave me feature requests. How should I tackle this?

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Always start with stakeholder intereviews

First things first, I'd conduct a stakeholder interview to nail down the root of the problem. I even wrote a super-detailed article on how to do it:

How To Conduct Stakeholder Interviews (UX Framework)

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https://uxplaybook.org/articles/how-to-conduct-ux-stakeholder-interviews

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I’m working on a UX project for an existing portal with 6 modules. I’ve got the business goals, but I’m stuck on defining the problem statements. The stakeholders just gave me feature requests. How should I tackle this?

Always start with stakeholder intereviews

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