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| Criterion |  UX Design Customer Journey Canvas |  Decision Making Delphi Method |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Growth A/B Testing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a journey needs to be understood across several phases, it arranges experience, touchpoints, and opportunities into one picture. It makes gaps and friction along the user path clear. | When knowledge is distributed and direct dominance should be avoided, groups quickly fall under the sway of their opinion leaders. The Delphi Method gathers assessments iteratively and gradually brings expert judgments closer together. | 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 two variants compete, discussions quickly decide by taste rather than effect. A/B Testing checks behavior under controlled conditions and separates real improvement from chance or expectation effects. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Low | High |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | 1-4 Wochen | 1-5 Tage | 1-4 Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 6-30 Experten | Nutzertraffic | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Async | Async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Customer Journey Canvas, Pain Points, Experience Opportunities | Expert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption Notes | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary |
Tagsno overlap | JourneyCustomerService designCanvas | ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation |