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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Innovation Design Thinking |  UX Design Lean UX Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | High | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 2-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 4-10 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | InnovationPrototypeResearch | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery |
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