The following manifesto represents my answer to the question - "As a UX or UI, designer, how do I know when and where to implement motion to support usability?"
Microinteractions
Creating Usability with Motion: The UX in Motion Manifesto
Affinity diagramming has long been used in business to organize large sets of ideas into clusters. In UX, the method is used to organize research findings or to sort design ideas in ideation workshops.
Workshops
Affinity Diagram — NN/g
Knowledge
Domain Expert Interview — UX Knowledge Base Sketches
Domain Experts / Subject Matter Experts / Industry Experts have invaluable knowledge that you can (and should) apply during your UX process. Domain expert involvement is not an alternative to UX research, and a domain expert is certainly neither a “user expert” nor a designer.
Interviews
Domain Expert Interview — UX Knowledge Base Sketches
When a customer uses a company's products and services to achieve a goal or need, they are going on a journey from point A to point Z. A customer journey map charts the path a user takes from the beginning of this journey to the satisfaction of that need.