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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree |  UX Design Lean UX Canvas |  Product Discovery Test Card |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 discovery keeps swinging between goals, ideas, and learning loops, it creates clear steering logic. It connects the desired outcome, opportunities, and experiments into a legible structure. | 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. | The Test Card turns a critical assumption into a testable claim and specifies in advance which result counts as success. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | 2-3 h | 20-35 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 2-6 | 3-8 | 1-5 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment | Test Card with a pre-set threshold |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery | ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryHypothesis |