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Criterion
A paper-based illustration representing Context Canvas with its core stages and visible working result.
Product Discovery
Context Canvas
Paper illustration of Competency Questions with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
Competency Questions
Paper illustration for Smoke Test.
Product Discovery
Smoke Test
Purposedifferent
When an environment of users, systems, and constraints is hard to grasp, it puts the context compactly on the table. It creates a clear reading of influence, boundary, and dependency.Competency Questions translate a domain model into concrete questions that it must be able to answer. The method keeps the model's scope clean and prevents pretty but useless structures.When demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumLow
Timedifferent
45-90 min2-4 h1-5 Tage
Participantsdifferent
3-102-8Nutzertraffic
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Context canvas, Open questions, Shared context notesCompetency Question Set, Required Concepts, Test Queries, Coverage MatrixInterest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note
Tagsno overlap
ContextFramingRequirementsCanvas
OntologyKnowledge graphScopeRequirementsSemantic
ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth
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Paper illustration for Fake Door Test
Product Discovery
Fake Door Test
Paper illustration of Shape-first Modeling with its method-specific working model.
Knowledge Modeling
Shape-First Modeling
Paper illustration of a calm four-quadrant Assumption Map with hypothesis cards and emphasis on important assumptions with little evidence.
Product Discovery
Assumption Mapping