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| Criterion |  Decision Making Argument Mapping |  UX Research Surveys |  Decision Making Red Teaming |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on. | When a topic needs to be validated broadly and many people can answer the same question, surveys gather structured feedback in a scalable form. Answers become comparable and segmentable instead of remaining merely anecdotal. | For strategic decisions with high reach, agreement and gut feeling are often not enough. Red teaming brings deliberate opposition into the situation and tests where a plan breaks under real counterarguments. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | 3-14 Tage | 1-4 h | 45-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-8 | 50+ | 3-8 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Argument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale | Survey Results, Charts, Segment Insights | Challenge Findings, Risk Register, Mitigation Plan | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking |
Tagsno overlap | SensemakingDecisionRationale | QuantitativeResearchValidation | RiskDecisionSensemaking | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation |