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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Context Canvas |  Product Discovery Pretotyping |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitysame | Low | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | Stunden bis wenige Tage | 1-5 Tage | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 1-4 | Nutzertraffic | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Context canvas, Open questions, Shared context notes | Pretotyping sketch, Test setup, Conversion data, Go or no-go decision | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric |
Tagsno overlap | ContextFramingRequirementsCanvas | ValidationDemandMVP | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |