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| Criterion |  Facilitation Mind Mapping |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  Product Discovery Fake Door Test |  Growth A/B Testing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | When demand only needs to be roughly verified, it tests interest with minimal effort. It measures whether people would take a next step at all. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 15-45 min | 1-5 Tage | 1-5 Tage | 1-4 Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 1-10 | Nutzertraffic | Nutzertraffic | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Mind Map, Topic Clusters, Open Questions | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Click Data, Interest Signal, Learning Decision | Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary |
Tagsno overlap | BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | ValidationExperimentsDemandDiscovery | ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation |