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| Criterion |  UX Research Card Sorting |  Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree |  Product Strategy GIST Planning |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When content only makes sense internally and users can't find the structure again, card sorting exposes their mental order. Terms, groups, and naming are then aligned with the target group's expectations. | When discovery keeps swinging between goals, ideas, and learning loops, it creates clear steering logic. It connects the desired outcome, opportunities, and experiments into a legible structure. | GIST Planning helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities. It links customer value, product logic, and decision priorities, and captures the result as goals, an idea bank, and a step-project list. | When experiments become unreadable after the fact, it arranges hypothesis, signal, and learning goal on a single canvas. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Completed Experiment Canvas and a Success Metric. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 20-45 min | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | Wochen bis Monate je Goal | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | Based on research question | 2-6 | 3-10 | 1-5 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Content groups, Label set, IA hypotheses | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log | Goals, Idea bank, Step-project list, Tasks, Learning reports | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric |
Tagsno overlap | Information architectureNavigationStructure | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity | RoadmapOutcomesPlanningExperiments | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |