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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Architecture arc42 |  Growth A/B Testing |  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. | arc42 structures architecture knowledge so teams can document system, decisions, and risks consistently. The template builds a living understanding of the architecture instead of scattered notes. | 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. | 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 | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 1-2 Tage | 1-4 Wochen | 3-14 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 1-4 | 1-6 | 50+ |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Architecture Document, Context View, Runtime View, Deployment View | Experiment results, Decision log, Learning summary | Survey Results, Charts, Segment Insights |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | ArchitectureDocumentationCommunication | ExperimentsGrowthAnalyticsValidation | QuantitativeResearchValidation |