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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Product Discovery Solution Interview |  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 a solution idea is already on the table, it checks how it is understood and evaluated. It looks for resonance, objections, and missing fit early in the conversation. | 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 | Medium | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | Mehrere Wochen | 30-60 min je Interview | 1-4 h | 3-14 Tage |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 5-10 Interviews | 2-8 | 50+ |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Solution Feedback, Objection List, Validation Notes | Contradiction Statement, Inventive Principles, Solution Concepts | Survey Results, Charts, Segment Insights |
Tagsno overlap | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | ValidationInterviewsPrototype | InnovationProblem solvingContradictionsCreativity | QuantitativeResearchValidation |