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Criterion
A paper-based illustration representing Design Sprint with its core stages and visible working result.
Innovation
Design Sprint
Paper illustration of Pretotyping with its method-specific working model.
Product Discovery
Pretotyping
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.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.
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Timedifferent
4-5 TageStunden bis wenige Tage
Participantsdifferent
5-81-4
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Prototype, Test Findings, Decision RationalePretotyping sketch, Test setup, Conversion data, Go or no-go decision
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Design sprintPrototypeValidationInnovation
ValidationDemandMVP
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Design Thinking as a learning loop: an observation notebook, a focused problem statement, different idea sketches, a cardboard prototype and user-test notes. Feedback leads to new understanding.
Innovation
Design Thinking
Paper illustration for Fake Door Test
Product Discovery
Fake Door Test
Paper illustration of Lean Startup with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Lean Startup
Paper illustration for Smoke Test.
Product Discovery
Smoke Test