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Criterion
Paper illustration showing three sorted card stacks and an open question about a possible group.
UX Research
Card Sorting
Paper illustration of Pretotyping with its method-specific working model.
Product Discovery
Pretotyping
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.Pretotyping clarifies whether a customer problem and solution idea create enough real demand. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence, and captures the result as a pretotyping sketch, test setup, and conversion data.
Complexitysame
LowLow
Timedifferent
20-45 minStunden bis wenige Tage
Participantsdifferent
Based on research question1-4
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Content groups, Label set, IA hypothesesPretotyping sketch, Test setup, Conversion data, Go or no-go decision
Tagsno overlap
Information architectureNavigationStructure
ValidationDemandMVP
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First-click Testing
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