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| Criterion |  Facilitation Mind Mapping |  UX Research Surveys |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |
|---|---|---|---|
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 a topic needs to be validated broadly and many people can answer the same question, surveys gather structured feedback in a scalable form. Answers become comparable and segmentable instead of remaining merely anecdotal. | 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 | Low | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 15-45 min | 3-14 Tage | Mehrere Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 1-10 | 50+ | 2-6 researchers plus sample |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Mind Map, Topic Clusters, Open Questions | Survey Results, Charts, Segment Insights | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses |
Tagsno overlap | BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation | QuantitativeResearchValidation | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative |
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