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Selected:Outcome-Driven InnovationARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs)Problem InterviewDesign Thinking
| Criterion |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Product Discovery Problem Interview |  Innovation Design Thinking |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | When the picture of the problem still needs to become solid, it asks about real situations and consequences. It separates genuine suffering from mere interest in a solution. | For complex user problems with an uncertain cause, the method connects observation, interpretation, and experiment into a learning cycle. It keeps the focus on real needs and avoids premature solution language. This produces robust decisions for product and service. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 30-60 min je Interview | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 5-12 Interviews | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Problem Evidence, Risk Notes, Customer Segments | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | DiscoveryInterviewsValidation | InnovationPrototypeResearch |