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| Criterion |  Innovation Design Sprint |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  UX Research Surveys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When the product question is unclear and time pressure is high, the method takes a team from an open idea to a testable solution. It connects problem understanding, decision, and learning in one compact format, lowering the risk of spending a lot of energy on a mere guess. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. | Outcome-Driven Innovation clarifies customer problems, solution opportunities, and evidence. It separates jobs, desired outcomes, importance, satisfaction, and opportunity, and captures results as desired outcome statements, an opportunity landscape, and segments by underserved needs. | When a topic needs to be validated broadly and many people can answer the same question, surveys gather structured feedback in a scalable form. Answers become comparable and segmentable instead of remaining merely anecdotal. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 4-5 Tage | 45-60 min | Mehrere Wochen | 3-14 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 5-8 | 2-8 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 50+ |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Prototype, Test Findings, Decision Rationale | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Survey Results, Charts, Segment Insights |
Tagsno overlap | Design sprintPrototypeValidationInnovation | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | QuantitativeResearchValidation |