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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Innovation Design Thinking |  Architecture ARID (Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs) |  Innovation Design Sprint |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. | 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 product question is unclear and time pressure is high, the method takes a team from an open idea to a testable solution. It connects problem understanding, decision, and learning in one compact format, lowering the risk of spending a lot of energy on a mere guess. |
Complexitydifferent | High | High | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 2–4 h review as a planning range; preparation and evaluation additional | 4-5 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 4-10 | Designers, developers as users, and facilitation | 5-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | Prioritized development tasks, Jointly produced code or pseudocode, Observed difficulties and open design questions, Proposed design revisions | Prototype, Test Findings, Decision Rationale |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | InnovationPrototypeResearch | ArchitectureEngineeringFeedbackValidationTasks | Design sprintPrototypeValidationInnovation |