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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Innovation Design Thinking |  UX Research Card Sorting |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | When content only makes sense internally and users can't find the structure again, card sorting exposes their mental order. Terms, groups, and naming are then aligned with the target group's expectations. |
Complexitydifferent | High | High | Low |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 20-45 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 4-10 | Based on research question |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | Content groups, Label set, IA hypotheses |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | InnovationPrototypeResearch | Information architectureNavigationStructure |
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