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Criterion
Paper illustration of a branching impact map with a Why goal at the root, actor circles, How behavior changes and What options.
Product Strategy
Impact Mapping
Paper illustration of a branching tree with an outcome at its root, customer opportunities, solution options and small experiment cards.
Product Discovery
Opportunity Solution Tree
A/B Testing workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Growth
A/B Testing
Paper illustration for Fake Door Test
Product Discovery
Fake Door Test
Purposedifferent
When a goal needs to be connected to several possible paths, it shows chains of impact instead of feature lists. It connects business goal, behavior change, and measures.When discovery keeps swinging between goals, ideas, and learning loops, it creates clear steering logic. It connects the desired outcome, opportunities, and experiments into a legible structure.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.When demand is still unclear, it measures interest in a feature before it is built. It separates real behavior from polite agreement and deliberately keeps build effort small.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumHighMedium
Timedifferent
45-90 min1-2 h Setup, laufend1-4 Wochen1-5 Tage
Participantsdifferent
3-82-61-6Nutzertraffic
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncAsyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery OptionsOpportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning LogExperiment results, Decision log, Learning summaryClick Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision
Tagsno overlap
OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning
DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity
ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation
ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery
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