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| Criterion | ![]() Growth Hooked Model | ![]() Growth North Star Metric | ![]() Product Discovery Experiment Canvas | ![]() Product Discovery Test Card |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | When product teams track many metrics, the view of the actual customer outcome easily gets lost. A North Star Metric bundles growth, usage, and value contribution into one signal that makes the system's direction visible. | 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 | Medium | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | Multiple workshops over several weeks | 1-2 h | 30-60 min | 20-35 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 3-8 | 1-5 | 1-5 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Hooked loop, Trigger map, Reward design, Ethics check | North Star metric, Input metric tree, Measurement cadence | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric | Test Card with a pre-set threshold |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthBehaviorRetention | GrowthMetricsAlignmentRetention | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |



