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Criterion
Paper illustration of Outcome-Driven Innovation with its method-specific working model.
Product Discovery
Outcome-Driven Innovation
Design sheets and interface cards connect to jointly written pseudocode with highlighted unresolved questions.
Architecture
ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)
Paper illustration of Lean UX Canvas with its method-specific working model.
UX Design
Lean UX Canvas
Paper illustration of a Test Card with four fields for hypothesis, test, metric, and success threshold.
Product Discovery
Test Card
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.ARID examines how well developers can work with a technical design. It focuses on a part of the system that can still be revised, between the architecture overview and the detailed specification.The Lean UX Canvas helps clarify user behavior, touchpoints, and concept decisions. It makes assumptions and desired outcomes visible and captures the result as a completed canvas, hypothesis list, and first experiment.The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success.
Complexitydifferent
HighMediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
Mehrere Wochen2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional2-3 h20-35 min
Participantsdifferent
2-6 researchers plus sampleDesigners, developers as users, and facilitation3-81-5
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypothesesPrioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisionsCompleted Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experimentTest Card with a pre-set threshold
Tagsno overlap
OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative
ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks
CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis
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