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| Criterion |  Architecture C4 Model |  Innovation Design Thinking |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  UX Design Storyboarding |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The C4 Model makes a system legible across several resolution levels, from context down to code. It suits situations where different audiences need to understand the same architecture from different altitudes. | For complex user problems with an uncertain cause, the method connects observation, interpretation, and experiment into a learning cycle. It keeps the focus on real needs and avoids premature solution language. This produces robust decisions for product and service. | Outcome-Driven Innovation clarifies customer problems, solution opportunities, and evidence. It separates jobs, desired outcomes, importance, satisfaction, and opportunity, and captures results as desired outcome statements, an opportunity landscape, and segments by underserved needs. | When a usage scenario needs to become understandable early, it condenses situations, context, and flow into a legible sequence. It helps check concept ideas before anything gets built. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | High | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-4 h | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | Mehrere Wochen | 30-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-5 | 4-10 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 1-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Context Diagram, Container Diagram, Component Diagram | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Storyboard, Concept Narrative, Testable Assumptions |
Tagsno overlap | ArchitectureCommunicationVisualization | InnovationPrototypeResearch | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | VisualizationConceptsSequencePrototype |