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| Criterion |  Innovation Design Thinking |  Innovation TRIZ |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |  Product Discovery Test Card |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | For complex user problems with an uncertain cause, the method connects observation, interpretation, and experiment into a learning cycle. It keeps the focus on real needs and avoids premature solution language. This produces robust decisions for product and service. | For technical contradictions or trade-offs, the method looks for solutions that resolve opposing requirements at the same time. It translates limits into an explicit picture of conflict that becomes workable. This produces not just compromises but more elegant principles. | When experiments become unreadable after the fact, it arranges hypothesis, signal, and learning goal on a single canvas. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as a Completed Experiment Canvas and a Success Metric. | The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. |
Complexitydifferent | High | High | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 1-4 h | 30-60 min | 20-35 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 2-8 | 1-5 | 1-5 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | Contradiction Statement, Inventive Principles, Solution Concepts | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric | Test Card with a pre-set threshold |
Tagsno overlap | InnovationPrototypeResearch | InnovationProblem solvingContradictionsCreativity | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |