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Criterion
Paper illustration of Hooked Model with its method-specific working model.
Growth
Hooked Model
Paper illustration for Flywheel.
Growth
Flywheel
Paper objective sheet with five SMART fields, baseline, target, owner, deadline and a complete result statement.
Product Strategy
SMART Goals
Purposedifferent
The Hooked Model helps clarify engagement loops, user behavior, and experiments. It makes repeat behavior measurable and captures the result as a hooked loop, trigger map, and reward design.Growth often breaks down where a reinforcing mechanism builds up too much friction. A Flywheel shows the cycle of value, repetition, and reinforcement meant to sustain growth.When goals are formulated too generally, it brings measurability, direction, and timing into shape. It prevents intentions from staying without clear verification.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
Multiple workshops over several weeks60-120 min15-30 min
Participantsdifferent
2-83-81-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Hooked loop, Trigger map, Reward design, Ethics checkFlywheel Map, Friction Points, Growth Levers, Experiment BacklogSMART Goal, Measurement Note, Deadline
Tagsno overlap
GrowthBehaviorRetention
GrowthRetentionConversion
GoalsPlanningMeasurementAlignment
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A paper-based illustration representing North Star Metric with its core stages and visible working result.
Growth
North Star Metric
A paper-based illustration representing OKRs with its core stages and visible working result.
Product Strategy
OKRs
Funnel Analysis workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Growth
Funnel Analysis
Paper illustration of Goal Question Metric with its method-specific working model.
Engineering
Goal Question Metric