I interviewed clients for designing a mean that helps them solving a problem they encounter.
Since I am running out of time and my deadline is approaching, I was advised to change my research question from a design research to a needs assessment. Now I am asking myself if I have to change my sub-questions that I got answered to sub-questions that match the new main question.
Actually I got an answer for what mean is needed but I cannot design it anymore. So how can I describe this instead of altering my subquestions and main question?
Needs assessments are typically more general and exploratory than projects that are driven by a specific set of research questions. In particular, the goal in needs assessment is often to learn the participants' perspective on the research topic.
In terms of the impact this would have on your project, the key issue is that you have already completed your data collection, so that would raise concerns about the extent to which your data collection was based on your full set of research questions. In other words, to what extent were your interviews based on an open-ended exploration of the participants' perspective (as in a typical needs assessment), versus pre-determined by your own research goals.
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