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Criterion
Paper illustration for Design Studio
UX Design
Design Studio
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Decision Making
Argument Mapping
Paper illustration for Smoke Test.
Product Discovery
Smoke Test
A/B Testing workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Growth
A/B Testing
Purposedifferent
When several designs need to be quickly put in relation to each other, it makes ideas visible and comparable. It encourages early variants instead of long upfront debates.When statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on.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
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Timedifferent
1-3 h1-3 h1-5 Tage1-4 Wochen
Participantsdifferent
3-81-8Nutzertraffic1-6
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncAsyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Sketches, Concept Directions, Design DecisionsArgument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision RationaleInterest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning NoteExperiment results, Decision log, Learning summary
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SketchingCollaborationIdeation
SensemakingDecisionRationale
ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth
ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation
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