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Criterion
Paper mind map with a central course onboarding question, colored main branches, keywords and cross-links.
Facilitation
Mind Mapping
Paper illustration of Pretotyping with its method-specific working model.
Product Discovery
Pretotyping
Purposedifferent
When a topic is still unclear and too many thoughts surface at once, Mind Mapping creates an open surface for ordering them. It makes connections, subtopics, and starting points visible without fixing them too early.Pretotyping clarifies whether a customer problem and solution idea create enough real demand. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence, and captures the result as a pretotyping sketch, test setup, and conversion data.
Complexitysame
LowLow
Timedifferent
15-45 minStunden bis wenige Tage
Participantsdifferent
1-101-4
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Mind Map, Topic Clusters, Open QuestionsPretotyping sketch, Test setup, Conversion data, Go or no-go decision
Tagsno overlap
BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation
ValidationDemandMVP
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