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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 two people facing each other, speech bubbles and an open interview notebook.
UX Research
User Interviews
Paper illustration of a Learning Card with four fields for hypothesis, observation, insight, and action.
Product Discovery
Learning Card
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 teams derive needs only from assumptions and real motives are missing, user interviews give direct access to behavior and meaning. Conversations from the target group's everyday life make patterns, tensions, and open questions solidly visible.The Learning Card connects traceable test results to a reasoned next action while keeping the limits of the insight visible.
Complexitydifferent
HighLowLow
Timedifferent
4-5 Tage30–60 min per interview25-40 min
Participantsdifferent
5-81 participant per interview1-5
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Prototype, Test Findings, Decision RationaleInterview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryLearning Card with evidence and next action
Tagsno overlap
Design sprintPrototypeValidationInnovation
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryLearning
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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 of Experiment Canvas with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Product Discovery
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Product Discovery
Fake Door Test
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Product Discovery
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