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Selected:Design ThinkingUser InterviewsLean UX CanvasOutcome-Driven Innovation
Criterion
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 two people facing each other, speech bubbles and an open interview notebook.
UX Research
User Interviews
Paper illustration of Lean UX Canvas with its method-specific working model.
UX Design
Lean UX Canvas
Paper illustration of Outcome-Driven Innovation with its method-specific working model.
Product Discovery
Outcome-Driven Innovation
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.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 Lean UX Canvas helps clarify user behavior, touchpoints, and concept decisions. It makes assumptions and desired outcomes visible and captures the result as a completed canvas, hypothesis list, and first experiment.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.
Complexitydifferent
HighLowMediumHigh
Timedifferent
1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen30–60 min per interview2-3 hMehrere Wochen
Participantsdifferent
4-101 participant per interview3-82-6 researchers plus sample
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Problem Statement, Prototype, Test LearningsInterview Notes, Themes, Insight SummaryCompleted Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experimentDesired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses
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InnovationPrototypeResearch
QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery
CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery
OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative
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