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| Criterion |  UX Research Customer Journey Mapping |  Product Discovery Experiment Canvas |  UX Design Customer Journey Canvas |  Product Discovery Fake Door Test |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a user journey falls apart across many touchpoints, customer journey mapping makes the experience visible as a coherent arc. Phases, emotions, and breaks become legible enough to prioritize critical moments deliberately. | 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. | When a journey needs to be understood across several phases, it arranges experience, touchpoints, and opportunities into one picture. It makes gaps and friction along the user path clear. | 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 | Medium | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2-4 h | 30-60 min | 1-3 h | 1-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 1-5 | 3-10 | Nutzertraffic |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Async |
Outputdifferent | Journey Map, Pain-point List, Opportunity Backlog | Completed Experiment Canvas, Success Metric | Customer Journey Canvas, Pain Points, Experience Opportunities | Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision |
Tagsno overlap | JourneyServiceService design | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis | JourneyCustomerService designCanvas | ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery |