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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Architecture Architecture Decision Record |  Product Discovery Smoke Test |  UX Research Surveys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | An ADR permanently records an architecture decision with context, trade-offs, and consequence. It creates continuity for later changes because the decision path stays traceable. | 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 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. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 15-45 min | 1-5 Tage | 3-14 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 1-3 | Nutzertraffic | 50+ |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | ADR File, Decision Log, Rationale | Interest Metrics, Conversion Signal, Learning Note | Survey Results, Charts, Segment Insights |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance | ValidationExperimentsDemandGrowth | QuantitativeResearchValidation |