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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  UX Research First-click Testing |  Innovation TRIZ |  UX Research Surveys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | When users immediately turn the wrong way on a screen or wireframe, first click testing checks initial orientation at high speed. The first click shows early whether expectation, labeling, and wayfinding fit together. | For technical contradictions or trade-offs, the method looks for solutions that resolve opposing requirements at the same time. It translates limits into an explicit picture of conflict that becomes workable. This produces not just compromises but more elegant principles. | When a topic needs to be validated broadly and many people can answer the same question, surveys gather structured feedback in a scalable form. Answers become comparable and segmentable instead of remaining merely anecdotal. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Low | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 1-2 Tage | 1-4 h | 3-14 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 10-30 | 2-8 | 50+ |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Click Heatmap, Success Rate, Design Recommendations | Contradiction Statement, Inventive Principles, Solution Concepts | Survey Results, Charts, Segment Insights |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | UXNavigationFindabilityValidation | InnovationProblem solvingContradictionsCreativity | QuantitativeResearchValidation |