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| Criterion |  UX Research Customer Journey Mapping |  UX Research Personas |  Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree |  Product Discovery Concierge MVP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 target groups stay too vague and teams talk about the same people differently, personas create a shared, solid picture of usage. Condensed profiles make needs, contexts, and differences tangible enough for decisions. | 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 an idea can first fail or grow through genuine hands-on support, it relies on manual work instead of automation. It shows whether user value holds up even under manual execution. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 2-4 h | 1-3 Tage | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 1-4 Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | Internes Team | 2-6 | 3-10 Kunden |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Journey Map, Pain-point List, Opportunity Backlog | Persona Profiles, Needs Summary, Scenario Notes | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log | Concierge Learnings, Service Blueprint, MVP Risks |
Tagsno overlap | JourneyServiceService design | ResearchCustomerSynthesis | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity | MVPValidationServiceDiscovery |