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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Jobs to Be Done |  UX Research User Interviews |  Innovation Design Sprint |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When switching motives and progress are unclear, it reconstructs the situation from real customer circumstances. It shows why a switch happens and what kind of progress is being sought. | When teams derive needs only from assumptions and real motives are missing, user interviews give direct access to behavior and meaning. Conversations from the target group's everyday life make patterns, tensions, and open questions solidly visible. | When the product question is unclear and time pressure is high, the method takes a team from an open idea to a testable solution. It connects problem understanding, decision, and learning in one compact format, lowering the risk of spending a lot of energy on a mere guess. | Outcome-Driven Innovation clarifies customer problems, solution opportunities, and evidence. It separates jobs, desired outcomes, importance, satisfaction, and opportunity, and captures results as desired outcome statements, an opportunity landscape, and segments by underserved needs. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | High | High |
Timedifferent | 1-3 Wochen | 30–60 min per interview | 4-5 Tage | Mehrere Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 5-12 Interviews | 1 participant per interview | 5-8 | 2-6 researchers plus sample |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Job Stories, Outcome Statements, Opportunity List | Interview Notes, Themes, Insight Summary | Prototype, Test Findings, Decision Rationale | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses |
Tagsno overlap | CustomerOutcomesNeeds | QualitativeResearchCustomerDiscovery | Design sprintPrototypeValidationInnovation | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative |